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Evolution provides integrated mail, addressbook and calendaring functionality to users of the GNOME desktop.

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How to access the Evolution calendar data from the command line?

I want to be able to access the Evolution calendar from the command line. Specifically, I'd like to be able to: List calendar events (the one-line summary, date and time is enough) Upcoming events starting today Events on a specific date Add an…
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How to see mails sent by me in Evolution

I can't find a setting the makes Evolution display messages sent by me in thread view. I can find them in Sent folder, but I'd like them to be part of the normal threads.
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Change menu shortcuts in Evolution

I'm trying to change menu shortcuts in the E-mail client Evolution, specifically removing the "send message" via "Ctrl-Enter" shortcut, but can't figure out how. My system is rather new: Debian 8 Jessie 64bit Gnome 3.14.1 Evolution 3.12.9 I…
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How do I override the From field in Evolution?

In other email interfaces (Thunderbird, Gmail) I can send messages from my account ([email protected]) but override the From: field with another name and address, for example another address I control on the same domain. How can I do this in Evolution?
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How to make gnome-shell calendar open calendar app's event details when clicking onto calendar entry?

In gnome-shell's top bar, calendar items are shown. This is great. However, I miss the possibility to click onto an item and then see more details/or simply to be led to the specific event item in evolution or another preferred calendar…
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How to disable gnome calendar integration with google?

I want to remove Google calendar tasks from Gnome calendar. I never really configured Gnome to show Google tasks but I think Evolution automatically integrated them. I did find some instructions on how to enable this integration, but they teach how…
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Reverse order of email thread folding in Evolution

By default Evolution groups emails by thread in a tree-like structure. The first email is the root, the responses to it are its children, etc. Here is a screenshot from…
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Password dialogs block keybindings

I am using XMonad 0.11, but this might be unrelated. I am using evolution 3.12.2 and this is related, but the problem might be more general. After research, it appears that the window in question is pinentry and comes from GPG2. Some password…
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Evolution: Scroll to bottom of inbox per default

I run Debian Wheezy with a Gnome 3 desktop. I migrated from Thunderbird to Evolution to manage my e-mails. I have my inbox configured to show the newest mails on the bottom. However, when Evolution starts it always shows me the top of the inbox…
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Evolution with GnuPG: "no imported public key" even if it is imported

I was running Evolution on Debian buster (testing) amd64 with GnuPG to encrypt mails. I have my GPG private key on a YubiKey actings as GPG smartcard. As Evolution somehow failed to load my calendars using CalDAV, I resetted Evolution. CalDAV is…
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Can I do a delay delivery in Thunderbird or Evolution

Now we have an option of "Delay Delivery" in Outlook. Can we do something like that in thunderbird/evolution or any other linux client ?
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How to get Evolution to run in VNC on Debian/Wheezy (or later)?

For many years I've been in the habit of, when away from home, VNC-ing (over ssh) back into my "home machine" and running Evolution (for email, contacts etc) in a tightvncserver environment there. This worked fine when the home machine was running…
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Search in evolution does not find umlaut in different encoding

I use Evolution 3.6.4 on Fedora 18 x86_64, my main language is German. I got a mail (on my imapx account) encoded in iso-8859-15 with the word "hügelig" in it. The mail is displayed correctly in evolution. When I click on the search bar, search for…
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Evolution fails to connect to my Google calendar

I've configured 2-Step Verification with my Google accont (under https://myaccount.google.com/security). Emails with OAuth 2 seem to come through fine but I keep getting "Failed to connect calendar “[email protected] : MyName” Data source…
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How do I add a colleague's calender in Evolution from Exchange?

I know it works, because I have 10 calendars, all marked with ews, that somehow I added when I setup Evolution a gazillion years ago. Now we got 2 new colleagues and I'm at total loss how to add them to my calendar. See the 2 pictures: These…
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