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[[File:evolution318.png|thumb|none|250px]][[Image:35star.png]][[Image:30star.png]]''There is NO WAY to hide obnoxious error messages that are in part due to bugs in Evolution, and other times often at the ISP end that the end user can do nothing about, yet a big annoying error message takes over the entire top half of the message view window. - This is an example of the suck factor in today's Evolution.''Lousy PITA email list: http://gnome-evolution-general.1774414.n4.nabble.com/== General Usage ===== Various Views Including Email, Contacts, and Calendar ===Hotkey combinations quickly get you to all the views* CTRL + 1 = default email messages view* CTRL + 2 = view contacts* CTRL + 3 = view calendar* CTRL + 4 = tasks* CTRL + 5 = memosUsing the clickable "Switcher"The label on the third row top left just above the side bar indicates things like "Sent, Personal, Calendar, Tasks, Memos" to indicate what the primary window interface is displaying. The switcher is at the bottom of the side bar and it lets you switch between the Evolution tools: Mail, Contacts, Calendars, Memos and Tasks.[[File:evolutionswitcher.jpg]]=== Howto Find the Address Book ===Ref: version 3.18.x looking under the menus at the top there is NOTHING THAT SAYS ADDRESS BOOK! Good grief how damn annoying is that? It is referred to as "Contacts" or Contact List and Evolution allows for multiple contact lists. Viewing contacts happens in the same window interface as does viewing mail. Many other email software opens contacts or address book in a new window interface. Evolution does not. However, as inconsistent as it is, Evolution will open a new interface when you begin to add a new contact.To Open and View Contacts:* CTRL+2 or click on CONTACTS in the SWITCHER at the bottom of the side barTo Add a new Contact:* click FILE -> NEW -> CONTACT or simply press CTRL+SHFT+C== Command Line Options == evolution --offlineStarts Evolution in offline mode. evolution --disable-previewDisables all the preview panes when you launch Evolution. It lets Evolution not to open the last crashed message, task or contact when you restart Evolution. Thus, it provides a way to avoid system crash caused by previewing message, task or contact. evolution mailto:nicolep@robotz.netStarts Evolution and begins composing a message to the e-mail address listed. evolution -c mailStarts Evolution in mail mode. evolution -c calendarStarts Evolution in calendar mode. evolution -c contactsStarts Evolution in contacts mode. evolution --force-shutdownForces every part of Evolution to shut down immediately. evolution ”%s”Makes Evolution your default e-mail handler for your Web browser and in the GNOME Control Center.=== Evolution forgets SMTP password ===[https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/evolution/+bug/1299604 Ubuntu / Evolution Bug Report: evolution keeps asking for password] Evolution uses "Keyring" to manage account passwords under Ubuntu / Mint / Gnome Linux. A program called "seahorse" is included with Gnome or Mint under typical installations under the name "Passwords and Keys."It seems that if Evolution has trouble connecting to the SMTP mail server, just once, it will trash all the saved passwords for SMTP mail account in keyring. This is clearly a bug in Evolution that the devs refuse to address.Once this happens, user must close exit out of Evolution and then go into keyring "otherwise known as Passwords and Keys" and use the search tool to enter "Evolution" then delete all Evolution entries. Close keyring, open Evolution, send email and enter the password so Evolution creates new keyring entries for each email SMTP account. Better yet, do a search for Mail Transport - smtpand only remove those if you use pop or imap to receive and SMTP to send, this way you are only resetting SMTP keyring passwords assuming your problem is being prompted for a password when attempting to send time and time again.