EVOLUTION

Section: GNOME (1)
Updated: 2004-11-06
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NAME

evolution - groupware suite for GNOME containing e-mail, calendar, addressbook, to-do list and memo tools

SYNOPSIS

evolution [OPTIONS] [MAILTO]

DESCRIPTION

This manual page briefly introduces the evolution command. Evolution is a graphical groupware suite, a single application for reading and sending e-mail and for managing calendars, address books, notes, to-do lists and memos. It is written for the GNOME graphical desktop.

An optional MAILTO expression can be specified, typically invoked from another application. An example MAILTO expression is `mailto:username@example.com`. This will open a new composer window with an empty e-mail to `username@example.com`. More advanced expressions are also suppported, but should conform to RFC 2368.

For a more detailed explanation of Evolution, please see the Help menu.

OPTIONS

-?, --help: Show a help message listing all the options and their meanings.
--usage: Show a brief help message listing the names of the options only.
-c, --component=COMPONENT: Start Evolution by activating the desired component. COMPONENT is one of `mail', `calendar', `contacts', `tasks', `memos'.
--offline: Start in offline mode.
--online: Start in online mode.
--force-shutdown: Forcibly shut down all Evolution components.
--force-migrate: Forcibly re-migrate from Evolution 1.4.
--debug=FILE: Send the debugging output of all components to FILE.
--disable-eplugin: Disable loading of any plugins.

In addition, the usual GTK+ and GNOME command line options apply. See the output of --help for details.

AUTHOR

Evolution was originally developed by the company Ximian, now a part of Novell. Evolution is now part of GNOME, and many people have touched the code. See the "About" item in the "Help" menu for a list.

This manual page was originally written by Lars Wirzenius for the Debian system.

This document was created by man2html, using the manual pages.
Time: 19:49:09 GMT, April 27, 2011