Evolution is a personal information management application that provides
integrated mail, calendaring and address book functionality. Its user
interface and functionality is similar to Microsoft Outlook.
Evolution delivers the following features:
E-mail retrieval with the POP and IMAP protocols and e-mail
transmission with SMTP
Secure network connections encrypted with SSL, TLS and STARTTLS
E-mail encryption with GPG and S/MIME
E-mail filters
Search folders: saved searches that look like normal mail folders
as an alternative to using filters and search queries
Automatic spam filtering with SpamAssassin and Bogofilter
Calendar support for the iCalendar file format, the WebDAV and
CalDAV standards and Google Calendar
Contact management with local address books, CardDAV, LDAP and
Google address books
Synchronization via SyncML with SyncEvolution and with Palm OS
devices via gnome-pilot
Address books that can be used as a data source in LibreOffice
User avatars loading from address book, e-mail headers X-Face, Face
or automatic lookup by hashed e-mail address from Gravatar service
A news client
Import from Microsoft Outlook archives (dbx, pst) and Berkley Mailbox
Below variables can be used to configure the build:
GCOV=yes : Enable build with GCOV code coverage
Requires gcov
GTKDOC=yes : Use gtk-doc to build documentation
TESTS=yes : Enable installed tests
SPAMASSASION=yes : Enable Spamasssasion support.
Requries Spamassasion
BOGOFILTER=yes : Enable Bogofilter support.
Requires Bogofilter
GNOMEDESKTOP=yes : Enable Gnome-Desktop support.
Requires gnome-desktop