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Evolution or Novell Evolution (formerly Ximian Evolution) is the official personal information manager and workgroup information management tool for GNOME. It combines E-mail, calendar, address book, and task list management. It has been an official part of GNOME since 2.8. Evolution development is sponsored primarily by Novell.Its user interface and functionality is similar to Microsoft's Outlook application. It does have some distinguishing features: full-text indexing of all incoming mail, and a "Virtual Folders" feature. "Virtual Folders" are saved searches that look like normal mail folders.
Evolution can optionally connect to a Microsoft Exchange server using its web interface and an Evolution add-on called Connector . Using gnome-pilot it may be synchronized with Palm Pilot devices, and Multisync enables it to be synchronized with mobile telephones and other PDAs.
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In 2004, Ximian was aquired by Novell, inc. All products, including Evolution, have now been taken under the Novell banner. Novell Evolution 2 is the current version of the application.
Evolution 2, which has been available since September 2004, delivers important new features:
- integrated connectivity to Novell GroupWise
- integrated connectivity to Microsoft Exchange
- improved offline support for IMAP accounts
- numerous calendar improvements,
- support for S/MIMES/MIME Secure / Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions is a standard for public key encryption and signing of e-mail encapsulated in MIME. S/MIME is similar to OpenPGP and older PGP/MIME, but incompatible with those. External links — has links to S/MIME re, enhanced contact management
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- improved desktop integration.
- improved compliance with GNOME Human Interface GuidelinesA set of Human Interface Guidelines or HIG is a software development document that attempts to create a common look and feel for all user interfaces in a particular environment, by enumerating specific policies. Policy decisions are often based on studies
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