Evolution
Apologies for the lack of posting recently, but you should know by now that I'm rarely in one place long enough to sit down over the summer period, let alone to actually write anything on here.
Anyway, coming around to what I wiish to write about this afternoon, Evolution (nice looking website, by the way). Evolution is a program that provides integrated mail, addressbook and calendaring functionality to users of the GNOME desktop on Linux.
For the whole time I've used Linux, I've used Mozilla Thunderbird, which is a very good mail client for Windows, Mac and Linux. However, as a GNOME user, there's always been the option of using Evolution, although I hadn't actually ever used it until this summer, mainly because I'd used Thunderbird on Windows and been very happy with it.
Apparently, Evolution is designed to look and behave very much like Microsoft's Outlook, though I can't say I know if it is, having never used Outlook. Still, I've been very pleased with the way it operates. One thing I have noticed which is handy is that you can set up more than one outgoing server address, which is very handy. In Thunderbird, you can only use one outgonig smtp address, but that's not always ideal if you have multiple email addresses and want to send emails from more than one account. In Evolution, each account has a seperate incoming and outgoing address. Excellent :)
Furthermore, Evolution has a calendar function which integrates very nicely with the GNOME panel in the top-right-hand corner of my screen. Very useful! When I used Thunderbird, I had to use Sunbird for my calendar function with it - which, although very good, meant having two programs open at once. It's much easier when it's all in the one program. It also has a to-hand memo and task section, which beats leaving text files full of tasks all over my desktop.
When I get back to Sheffield, I think I'll switch to Evolution. Now if only Gmail would support IMAP...
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