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