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Evolution Mail and Calendar

За почеток

Starting Evolution for the first time — Running Evolution for the very first time.

The Evolution main window — An explanation of the areas shown in the Evolution window.

За почеток — An introduction to Evolution.

Mail Management

Changing the mail window layout — Changing the display of the mail window (message list columns and widescreen).

Deleting and undeleting messages — Deleting, expunging, and undeleting mail.

Display of a message — Rendering an email and handling its attachments.

Junk and Spam Mail Handling — How to automatically handle unwanted mail.

Sending and receiving mail — On receiving mail and sending written emails.

Sorting and organizing mail — On folders, sorting, searching, filters, search folders, and labels.

Using shortcut keys to read mail — Keyboard shortcuts that can save you some time when reading mail.

Working Offline — Work with your mail while not being connected to the network.

Менаџмент на сметки — Adding, editing and managing mail accounts.

Advanced Mail Management

Mail encryption and certificates — Sending and receiving encrypted mail.

Read receipts for emails — How to enable requesting read receipts.

Sending invitations by email — Sending invitations for appointments to contacts via email.

IMAP+

IMAP Subscriptions — IMAP folder subscriptions.

Mail Composing

Adding attachments to an email — Attaching files to emails you want to send.

Autocompletion of mail recipients — Autocompletion of names and email addresses entered in the mail composer.

Composing a new message — Writing a new email to send to a recipient.

Formatting emails (in Plain Text and HTML) — Changing fonts, using colors, and inserting images, tables and links.

Forwarding a message — Forwarding a received email to somebody.

Replying to a message — Answering a received email.

Searching in the mail composer — Searching for text in the mail composer.

Sending a message to several recipients — Sending to more than one person and using CC or BCC.

Spell checking — On spell checking your mail in the composer.

Working with email signatures — Using email signatures at the bottom of a message you send.

Advanced Mail Composing

Character Encodings — When letters in an email are not shown correctly or missing.

Custom Header Lines — Using custom fields in the header of composed messages.

Message Templates — Message templates to reuse in the composer.

Overriding the "From" field — Change the sender name and address on the fly by setting arbitrary values.

Prioritizing outgoing messages — Setting a priority for messages to be sent.

Send Account Overrides — Assign your mail accounts to certain folders or recipients.

Using an external editor — Using a text editor application instead of the default mail composer.

Calendar Management

Add, Edit, and Delete Appointments — On adding, editing, and deleting appointments.

Changing the calendar layout — Adjusting the display and views of the calendar.

Reminders for appointments — Setting up reminder notifications for appointments.

Sending invitations by email — Sending invitations for appointments to contacts via email.

Sorting and organizing calendars — On using several calendars, searching, and categories.

Advanced Calendar Management

Meetings — Using meetings in the calendar.

Sharing your calendar information — Make your information (appointments and free/busy times) available to others.

Using Classifications — Classifying appointments and tasks on groupware servers.

Using Recurrence — Repeating appointments.

Using time zones — Using time zones in the calendar.

Contacts Management

Add, Edit, and Delete Contacts — On adding, editing, and deleting contacts in address books.

Autocompletion of mail recipients — Autocompletion of names and email addresses entered in the mail composer.

Sorting, organizing and grouping contacts — On address books, searching, contact lists, and categories.

Memos and Tasks Management

Add, Edit and Delete Memos — On adding, editing, and deleting memos.

Add, Edit, and Delete Tasks — On adding, editing, and deleting tasks.

Displaying of tasks — Options for displaying task completion and due dates.

Sorting and organizing tasks and memos — On task and memo lists, searching, and categories.

Data Migration and Synchronization

Back up and restore — Back up and restore your Evolution data and settings.

Contacts in LibreOffice — Using data from Evolution address books in LibreOffice documents.

Exporting data from Evolution — How to export data from Evolution.

Importing data from another application — Importing data from another application.

Synchronize Evolution with other devices — Synchronize Evolution data with handheld devices and mobile phones.

Corporate Environments

Microsoft Exchange

Поврзување со Exchange сервери — Поврзување со Exchange сервери

Tracking down Problems

How to get help — How to get help for problems.

How to report bugs — How to report mistakes in the application.

How to track down a problem — How to provide good information when tracking down a problem.

Common Mail Questions and Problems

Access a Gmail IMAP Account via Evolution — How to set up a Gmail IMAP Account.

Access a Gmail POP Account via Evolution — How to set up a Gmail POP Account.

Changing the "On date, person wrote:" string when replying — It is not possible to change the quotation introduction added when answering mail.

Duplicate emails get downloaded — How to handle duplicated email messages

Forwarding a message with its attachments — How to forward a message with its attachments.

Handling localized "Re:" in subjects — Avoid long subject lines due to translated "Re:" prefixes.

I cannot see some emails, where are they? — If you received or sent an email, but you cannot find it anywhere.

Mail filters are not working — Fix problems with mail filters that do not sort and organize mail as expected.

Mail is not sent — Possible reasons why emails are not sent.

Moved emails are still shown in the original folder — Moving emails from one folder to another.

Save messages as PDF — Converting emails into PDF files.

Searching for emails with a specific attachment type — Unfortunately this is not possible.

Separating POP mail for more than one account — How to split and sort mail when using more than one local account.

Thread related headers recognized by Evolution — Which thread-related headers are recognized by Evolution.

Two Trash or Junk folders shown for the same account — How to have only one trash or junk folder per account.

Updating/refreshing the folders on the mail server — Ways to update your Evolution folders.

Words are wrapped in outgoing mail at 72 characters — Words are wrapped in outgoing mails at 72 characters.

Common Other Questions and Problems

Changing the Switcher appearance — Changing the display of the window buttons in the lower left corner.

Data storage locations — Where does Evolution store my data on the harddisk?

Freeing disk space by deleting items — Deleting emails and calendar entries to reduce the size of the files used by Evolution.

Opening links in and from the web browser — Opening links from an email in a browser and opening the mail composer from an email link on a website.

Why is Evolution's mail component offline? — Make Evolution mail be online again.

Further reading

Credits and Acknowledgment — Credits and Acknowledgment.

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