Evolution (software)
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This article is about the e-mail client. For the theory in biology, see 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.
Evolution 2Evolution 2, which has been available since September 2004, delivers these new features:
Evolution for WindowsIn 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 4, 2006 and currently has an installer available for Windows XP. As of April 2007, a beta download has been available from PC World. The Beta version is supported on Windows 98, Windows 2000, and Windows XP. (See external links) Currently, it is neither supported nor functional on Windows Vista. Before this announcement, several projects with the same goal had been started (Evolution for Windows being the most notable), but none of them reached alpha status. The shellter project on SourceForge provides version 2.8.2-2 Evolution on Win32 (Sourceforge project shellter) Evolution for Mac OS XEvolution 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 See alsoReferences
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