Novell Evolution

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Novell Evolution

Evolution's e-mail client Evolution's calendaring software
Developer:	Novell
Latest release:	2.10.0 / 12 March 2007
Preview release:	2.9.92 / 26 February 2007
OS:	Cross-platform
Use:	Personal information manager
License:	GPL
Website:	gnome.org/.../evolution/

Evolution or Novell Evolution (formerly Ximian Evolution, prior to Novell's 2003 acquisition of Ximian) is the official personal information manager and workgroup information management tool for GNOME. It combines e-mail, calendar, address book, and task list management functions. It has been an official part of GNOME since version 2.8 in September 2004. Evolution development is sponsored primarily by Novell.

Its user interface and functionality are similar to Microsoft Outlook. It has some distinguishing features: iCalendar support, full-text indexing of all incoming mail, powerful email filters writable in Scheme^[1], and a "Search Folders" feature (i.e., saved searches that look like normal mail folders).

Evolution can be connected to a Microsoft Exchange Server using its web interface and an Evolution add-on formerly called Ximian Connector. Using gnome-pilot, it may be synchronized with Palm Pilot devices, and OpenSync enables it to be synchronized with mobile telephones and other PDAs.

1 Evolution 2
2 Evolution for Windows
3 Evolution for Mac OS X
4 See also
5 References
6 External links

[edit] Evolution 2

Evolution 2, which has been available since September 2004, delivers important new features:

integrated connectivity to Novell GroupWise
integrated connectivity to Microsoft Exchange
integrated support for GPG email encryption
improved offline support for IMAP accounts
numerous calendar improvements,
support for S/MIME, enhanced contact management
Gaim instant messaging integration
improved desktop integration.
improved compliance with GNOME's Human Interface Guidelines
integrated SpamAssassin functionality (with user-defined spam score and whitelist rules in ~/.spamassassin/)

[edit] Evolution for Windows

In January 2005, Novell's Nat Friedman announced in his blog that the company had hired Tor Lillqvist, the programmer who ported GIMP to Microsoft Windows, to do the same with Evolution. The project released an alpha version of Evolution for Win32 on July 4th, 2006 and currently has an installer available for Windows XP.

As of April 2007, a beta download has been available from PC World (magazine). The Beta version is supported on Windows 98, Windows 2000, Windows XP, and Windows Vista. (See external links)

Before this announcement, several projects with the same goal had been started (Evolution for Windows being the most notable), but none of them had even reached alpha status.

[edit] Evolution for Mac OS X

Evolution 2.6 installer for Mac OS X is available for download. More details here

Official Novell download page for an OS X package of Evolution 2.6 here

[edit] See also

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[edit] References

^ "Expression - For programmers only: match a message according to an expression you write in the Scheme language, used to define vFolders in Ximian Evolution" [1]