Evolution Email

Evolution is an application for managing email, calendars, contacts, tasks, and notes. It is the default mail client in GNOME. It includes support for IMAP, Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 and 2010, Novell GroupWise, Kolab, LDAP, WebDAV, CalDAV, and many other services and protocols.

Evolution (Linux/UNIX Version)

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• License: Open Source
• Outlook / Exchange capabilities
• Excellent Security
• Excellent Interface
• The best email software available for *NIX platform

*The Windows version of Evolution is rated lower, although it works, there are issues on that platform.

Receiving Mail

• Server Type: POP
• Server: pop.gmail.com
• Username: <username>@gmail.com
• Use Secure Connecetion: SSL encryption
• Authenthication Type: Password

Optionally fill in automatically check for new mail every ** minutes. The rest is user specific. Sending Mail

• Server type: SMTP
• Server: smtp.gmail.com
• Port: 587
• Server requires authentication: Checked
• Use Secure Connection: TSL
• Fill in Username: <username>@gmail.com
• Authentication: PLAIN or Login

You are now finished with configuring Evolution for Gmail. Just hit Send/Receive in the main screen and wait for new mail. If it still didn't work, go here.

Export / Migrate

After the identical version of Evolution has been installed on the new system, you will access the old system or hard drive to obtain the following from their respective paths and copy to the identical path on the new system.

• /home/%user%/.local/share/evolution/
• /home/%user%/.cache/evolution/
• /home/%user%/.config/evolution/