Evolution (software)
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Evolution's e-mail client
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| Original author(s) | Ximian |
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| Developer(s) | The GNOME Project |
| Initial release | 10 May 2000 |
| Stable release | 3.24.1 (12 April 2017) |
| Preview release | 3.25.1 (26 April 2017) |
| Repository | git |
| Development status | Active |
| Written in | C (GTK+) |
| Operating system | Unix-like |
| Available in | 53 languages with more than 80% translation |
| Type | Personal information manager |
| License | LGPL and others |
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Evolution (formerly Novell Evolution and Ximian Evolution, prior to Novell's 2003 acquisition of Ximian) is the official personal information manager for GNOME. It has been an official part of GNOME since Evolution 2.0 was included with the GNOME 2.8 release in September 2004. It combines e-mail, address book, calendar, task list and note-taking features. Its user interface and functionality is similar to Microsoft Outlook. Evolution is free software licensed under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL).
Evolution delivers the following features:
The Novell GroupWise plug-in is no longer in active development. A Scalix plug-in is also available, but its development stopped in 2009.
Evolution Data Server (EDS) is a collection of libraries and session services for storing address books and calendars. Other software such as California and GNOME Calendar depend on EDS as well.
Depending on which version of Microsoft Exchange Server is used, different packages need to be installed to be able to connect to it. The documentation recommends the evolution-ews package (which uses Exchange Web Services) for Exchange Server 2007, 2010 and newer. If evolution-ews does not work well, it is advised to try the evolution-mapi package. This supports Exchange Server 2010, 2007 and possibly older versions supporting MAPI. For Exchange Server 2003, 2000 and possibly earlier versions supporting Outlook Web App the package evolution-exchange is recommended.
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