Evolution is a personal information management application that provides integrated mail, calendaring and address book functionality.

Online Support

• First consult the Evolution Manual.

• The evolution-list mailing list is the best place to seek further assistance with using Evolution, for example when you have problems.
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• The evolution-hackers mailing list is for developer discussions. The topics can get pretty technical.
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• Many Evolution developers and users can also be found on IRC (irc.gimp.org), channel #evolution.

Get the Source Code

The Evolution project releases its source code as tarball files, from which Free Software distributors can create easily-installable binary packages for users.

Most likely your Free Software distribution (Fedora, Mint, Ubuntu, etc.) already provides binary packages for Evolution. The following links are only for the source code.

The latest stable releases are the 3.18 series. Tarballs can be found for these various components (see also the “.news” files accompanying them for a list of changes):

• evolution 3.18.x

• evolution-data-server 3.18.x

• evolution-ews 3.18.x (optional)

• evolution-mapi 3.18.x (deprecated)

The latest development snapshot tarballs (3.17 series, what will become 3.18) can be found below (after the first 3.17 release):

• evolution 3.17.x

• evolution-data-server 3.17.x

• evolution-ews 3.17.x (optional)

• evolution-mapi 3.17.x (deprecated)

Or you can clone the source code repositories with git:

• git clone git://git.gnome.org/evolution (Browse)

• git clone git://git.gnome.org/evolution-data-server (Browse)

• git clone git://git.gnome.org/evolution-ews (optional) (Browse)

• git clone git://git.gnome.org/evolution-mapi (deprecated) (Browse)

You can also view the schedule of upcoming releases.

Developer Resources

• Release Process and Schedule

• See all the easy-to-fix bugs in Bugzilla

• Bugzilla Topics (used in “Status Whiteboard” entry)

• Environment Variables to Aid Debugging

• ESource File Format and Migration Guide

• Extensions (gradually replacing EPlugin)

Reference Manuals

• Camel (for email)

• Evolution-Data-Server

• Evolution Shell

• Evolution Utilities

• Evolution Mail Composer

• Evolution Mail Formatter

• Private D-Bus Interfaces

The following materials have aged. Some parts are no longer accurate and need a rewrite.

• Evolution Data Server Architecture

• Evolution Architecture

• EPlugin Information

• Camel library information – Mail access and storage library

• Overview of Filtering API

Evolution-EWS (Exchange Web Services)

• Exchange Web Services operations feature’s parity matrix with /EWS (evolution-ews)

Feature Planning

• Future Planning Page

• Reducing Preferences

People

Maintainers

• MilanCrha (mcrha)

User Documentation

• AndreKlapper (andre)

IRC nick names in brackets.