Install Evolution email client on Ubuntu Linux. Evolution is the default email and calendar application in openSUSE’s GNOME desktop. For many, Evolution email client is the best email client for Linux Ubuntu Systems. Evolution supports many mail protocols such as IMAP, POP, SMTP and authenticated SMTP, as well as Microsoft Exchange 2000, 2003, and 2007. Novell GroupWise support is also supported.
Evolution is not just any ordinary email client. It is a personal information management application that provides integrated mail, calendaring and address book functionality. Evolution is used as the default personal information manager on several Linux distributions which use GNOME by default, most notably Debian and Fedora. Ubuntu has replaced Evolution with Mozilla Thunderbird as the default e-mail client since version 11.10, Oneiric Ocelot.
Evolution Features
- Supported protocol, incoming POP, IMAP & outgoing SMTP
- Establish Secure network connections by enabling SSL, TLS and STARTTLS encryption.
- E-mail encryption with GPG and S/MIME
- E-mail filters.
- Spell-checking
- GNOME integration
- Easy to use search functionality
- Integrated groupware solution
- Spam tackling with spamassassin integration
- IMAP Subscriptions
- Advanced Mail Composing
- Advanced Calendar Management
- Memos and Tasks Management
- Data Migration and Synchronization
- Microsoft Exchange support
Install Evolution Email Client
Run the following commands in Terminal to install Evolution Email Client on Linux Ubuntu Systems:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:gnome3-team/gnome3-staging
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install evolution
Once installed, open Evolution email client from Ubuntu Dash and configure it to use.
If you aren’t happy with the Evolution and wish to uninstall the Evolution Email Client from Ubuntu Systems, run the command:
ppa-purge gnome3-team/gnome3-staging
ppa-purge gnome3-team/gnome3