GNOME Evolution (formerly Novell Evolution and Ximian Evolution, before Novell acquired Ximian in 2003) is the official personal information manager for GNOME. It has been an official part of GNOME since Evolution 2.0 was included with the GNOME 2.8 release in September 2004.
- Email filters
- Search folders: saved searches that look like normal mail folders as an alternative to using filters and search queries
- Automatic spam filtering with SpamAssassin and Bogofilter
- Connectivity to Microsoft Exchange Server, Novell GroupWise and Kolab depends on EDS also.
Some documentation about the software architecture is available in the GNOME wiki.
Connecting to Microsoft Exchange Server
Depending on which version of Microsoft Exchange Server is used, different packages need to be installed to be able to connect to it. The documentation recommends the evolution-ews package (which uses Exchange Web Services) for Exchange Server 2007, 2010 and newer. If evolution-ews does not work well, it is advised to try the evolution-mapi package. This supports Exchange Server 2010, 2007 and possibly older versions supporting Messaging Application Programming Interface (MAPI). For Exchange Server 2003, 2000 and possibly earlier versions supporting Outlook Web App the package evolution-exchange is recommended.