page_title: GNOME Evolution
section_title: Features
hierarchical_section_title: GNOME Evolution / Features
caption_attribution_description: English: Viewing the calendar in Evolution 3.6.2 on GNOME 3.6.2. The operating system is Fedora 18.
context_page_description: GNOME Evolution 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. It combines e-mail, address book, calendar, task list and note-taking features. Its user interface and functionality is similar to Microsoft Outlook. Evolution is free software licensed under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License.
context_section_description: Evolution delivers the following features:
  E-mail retrieval with the POP and IMAP protocols and e-mail transmission with SMTP
  Secure network connections encrypted with SSL, TLS and STARTTLS
  E-mail encryption with GPG and S/MIME
  E-mail 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 (provided in separate packages as plug-ins)
  Calendar support for the iCalendar file format, the WebDAV and CalDAV standards and Google Calendar
  Contact management with local address books, CardDAV, LDAP and Google address books
  Synchronization via SyncML with SyncEvolution and with Palm OS devices via gnome-pilot
  Address books that can be used as a data source in LibreOffice
  User avatars loading from address book, e-mail headers X-Face, Face or automatic lookup by hashed e-mail address from Gravatar service
  An RSS reader plug-in
  Import from Microsoft Outlook archives (dbx, pst) and Berkley Mailbox
  
  The Novell GroupWise plug-in is no longer in active development. A Scalix plug-in is also available, but its development stopped in 2009.
caption: Evolution's calendar software
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