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Evolution(1) GNOME Applications Evolution(1) NAME
evolution - Run Ximian Evolution, a groupware suite for GNOME containing email, calendar, addressbook, and task-list tools. SYNOPSIS
evolution [OPTION] ... [URI] DESCRIPTION
This program is a graphical groupware suite; a single application with email, calendar, address book, and task-list tools to help you col- laborate with other people. This man page is not the central source of help for Evolution. You can find the user's guide by running the application and selecting items from the Help menu. Additional help and security information are available at the Ximian knowledge base online at http://sup- port.ximian.com. For help with additional command-line options, type evolution --help at the command line. EXAMPLES
evolution Runs the application. evolution "%s" To use Evolution as the handler for mailto: links in GNOME applications, open the GNOME Control Center and set the mailto: URL han- dler to this value. You can do this with non-GNOME browsers such as Mozilla, by setting the appropriate value in that application's preferences dialogs. evolution mailto:joe@somewhere.net Open the message composer, addressing the message to joe@somewhere.net. evolution evolution:/local/Inbox Start the application with the local Inbox folder open. evolution default:mail Start the application with the folder mail/calendar/contacts/tasks open. evolution --no-splash Start Evolution, but do not display the start-up splash screen. evolution --debug=FILENAME Start the application, and output debugging messages to FILENAME. Ximian, Inc. 1.2 Evolution(1)
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evolution(1) User Commands evolution(1) NAME
evolution - start Ximian Evolution, Sun Microsystems Edition SYNOPSIS
evolution [--debug=filename] [--force-shutdown] [--help] [--no-splash] [--offline] [--online] [--usage] [URI] DESCRIPTION
Evolution is a personal and workgroup information management solution for Linux and UNIX-based systems. Evolution integrates email, calen- dar, contacts, and task list management in one application. Evolution provides full support for several data exchange and communications standards, such as IMAP, POP, SMTP, LDAP, iCalendar, and vCard. Evolution enables tight integration with Sun ONE Messaging and Calendar Servers and other messaging systems. EXTENDED DESCRIPTION
Evolution uses the following gconf options: use_http_proxy This option enables Evolution to get weather or news information through the proxy server. To set this option, execute the following command: % gconftool-2 --type=bool --set /system/http_proxy/use_http_proxy "TRUE" host This option sets the hostname of the proxy server. To set this option, execute the following command: % gconftool-2 --type=string --set /system/http_proxy/host "host_name" port This option sets the port number of the proxy server. To set this option, execute the following command: % gconftool-2 --type=int --set /system/http_proxy/port "port" OPTIONS
The following options are supported: --debug=filename Save all debug messages in filename. --force-shutdown Forcibly shut down all Evolution components. --help Display help text. You can also use -? to specify this option. --no-splash Disable splash screen. --offline Start in offline mode. --online Start in online mode. --usage Display brief usage text. OPERANDS
The following operands are supported: URI The name of the physical storage folder. Evolution implements four different types of storage: local storage, IMAP server storage, LDAP server storage, and vFolder storage. EXAMPLES
Example 1: Launching Evolution example% evolution Example 2: Launching Evolution and Displaying the Local Inbox example% evolution evolution:/local/Inbox Example 3: Sending an Email example% evolution mailto:someone@somewhere.com EXIT STATUS
The following exit values are returned: 0 Application exited successfully 1 Application exited with failure FILES
The following files are used by this application: /usr/bin/evolution Executable for Evolution application /usr Per-system configuration files for Evolution /etc Per-system configuration files for bonobo-activation integration /usr/share/applications Per-system configuration files for GNOME desktop integration $HOME/evolution Per-user configuration files and local storage for Evolution $HOME/.gconf Per-user configuration files for gconf $HOME/evolution/mail/account/folders Temporary files for Evolution mail $HOME/evolution/sunone/account/folders Temporary files for Evolution Sun ONE account ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes: +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ | ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Architecture |SPARC | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Availability |SUNWevo | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |CSI |Enabled | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Interface stability |Standard | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |MT-Level |MT safe with Exceptions | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ SEE ALSO
Ximian Evolution Sun Microsystems Edition User Guide gconftool-2(1) NOTES
This man page was originally written by Ximian Inc. Updated by Cynthia Gu, Sun Microsystems Inc., 2003. SunOS 5.10 8 Oct 2003 evolution(1)