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Evolution is the integrated mail, calendar and address book
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distributed suite from Helix Code, Inc.
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See http://www.helixcode.com/apps/evolution.php3 for more information.
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Note that Evolution is still pre-alpha. This means even if you manage
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to compile and run it, you might not be able to figure out how to tell
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it to accidentally delete all of your mail.
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If you are interested in hacking on Evolution, you should subscribe to
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the Evolution mailing list. Send mail to
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"evolution-request@helixcode.com" with the word "subscribe" in the
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body of the message. If you are planning to work on any part of
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Evolution, please send mail to the mailing list first, to avoid
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duplicated effort (and to make sure that you aren't basing your work
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on interfaces that are expected to change).
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There is a mailing list archive available at
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http://lists.helixcode.com/archives/public/evolution/
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There is also an #evolution IRC channel on irc.gnome.org.
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Evolution depends on the following non-core gnome libraries: bonobo,
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gdk-pixbuf, gnome-print, gnome-vfs, gtkhtml, libglade, and libunicode.
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(These are all in GNOME CVS, in the modules by those names.) You also
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need a recent copy of ORBit. At the present time, the version in Helix
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GNOME is the only released version that is new enough. If you don't
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have that, you should check out ORBit from GNOME CVS with the option
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"-r orbit-stable-0-5" to get the recent stable branch.
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The layout of the source tree is:
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addressbook: the Address Book UI
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calendar: the Calendar UI
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camel: libcamel, a messaging library used by the mailer.
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Camel is inspired by Sun's JavaMail
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(http://java.sun.com/products/javamail/) and the
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IMAPv4 spec (RFC 2060).
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compose: the message composer UI
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data: the .desktop file for Evolution
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devel-docs: entirely inadequate documentation
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doc: more inadequate documentation, and some nice white
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papers
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e-util: utility code used by various parts of Evolution
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filter: libfilter, a mail filtering library
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libibex: an indexing library used by the mailer
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libical: a library for the iCalendar format (RFC 2445-2446)
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libversit: a library for the vCard (RFC 2425-2426) and vCalendar
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(http://www.imc.org/pdi/vcal-10.txt) formats
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mail: the mail display UI
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shell: the Evolution shell (the main program that launches
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the other components)
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tests: some test programs
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widgets: widgets used by Evolution, including the shortcut bar,
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ETable, and EText |