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To Patrick and all the Evolution team, Thankyou for your time and your answers to my query on evolution set up. I now have a much clearer idea of what the system does. As I only use email for occasional contacts I probably won't go any further than my current hotmail account. I work at sea and am lucky enough not to have to rely on computers for my living. Thanks all Yours sincerely Philip Marks > Subject: Re: [Evolution] evolution set up > From: poc usb ve > To: evolution-list gnome org > CC: marxph hotmail co uk > Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2010 10:22:56 -0430 > > On Sun, 2010-08-22 at 16:45 +0100, Philip Marks wrote: > > Sirs, I have evolution preloaded on my Toshiba NB100 but have no idea > > how to set it up nor how to use it or why. I already use hotmail but > > want something that configures with the other ubuntu files I have. > > Please dont just suggest the evolution Start upn notes because they > > mean nothing to na non techy like me. I dont what a server is or > > anythingelse it mentions. > > It's the "why to use it" I find intriguing about your query :-) > > Evolution is a PIM (Personal Information Manager). It can handle your > email, contacts (i.e. address book), tasks (to-do list), calendar > (appointments) and so on, all from one program. It aims to cover roughly > the same ground as Outlook on a Windows machine, if that means anything > to you. If not, never mind. In any case I'll restrict myself to the > email function as that's the most important for most people -- in fact I > hardly use the other functions myself. > > Evolution is an email *client*, i.e. among other things it allows you to > read your email in multiple accounts from different providers (including > Hotmail, Gmail, Yahoo, your ISP, your workplace etc.), receive new mail > or send messages, organize mail into folders you set up yourself, and > filter incoming messages e.g. to catch spam (junk mail). > > So what's the difference between that and what you already do with > Hotmail? Well, Hotmail, Gmail, Yahoo and others are what's called > webmail systems, i.e. you access them via a Web browser such as Firefox > or Google Chrome. That means that a) you have to be online while reading > or sending mail, and b) the user interface is limited to what a web > browser can support. The big advantage is that it requires very little > setup and can be accessed from anywhere with Internet connectivity, even > from someone else's computer, e.g. if you visit a friend or go to an > Internet café. This is because all the work is being done by the web > server belonging to Microsoft or Google or whatever. > > A proper email client such as Evolution runs as a program in your own > computer, not inside a browser. It can fetch mail from multiple accounts > when you connect to them (these accounts live on "mail servers"), then > allow you to read and reply to the mail even if the connection is broken > (obviously replies aren't actually sent until there's a connection), > store local copies of your mail for any kind of processing you might > want, move messages from one service provider to another (if the > provider allows it), encrypt or digitally sign your messages for > security, etc. Many people find this highly flexible because it can > handle huge quantities of mail and process it in ways no webmail system > supports. However it does require more setup and at least some idea of > what's going on behind the scenes in order to correct any problems that > may arise. > > If that's not for you, and you don't have easy access to technical > support, you may not want to go that way. Note that this mailing list is > a good way to get such support, but a) it's completely voluntary and > member-driven, and b) the response to queries often depends on how well > they are posed, i.e. it's important to be able to ask a good question if > you want a good answer. > > If you decide to reply to this, please use Reply To All so that the > reply does to the list and not just to me. > > poc > |