How to set up Evolution for email
August 11th, 2007 by Ross McKillop |
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This tutorial will guide you in setting up Evolution 2.1.x (the version included in Ubuntu 7.04 - known as “Feisty Fawn”) for the first time. Though the screenshots are from Ubuntu, the steps are virtually identical if you’re using another version of Linux.
- When Evolution launches for the first time, the Setup Assistant will start. Click Forward to continue.
- On the Identity tab, enter the required information in each of the appropriate fields. The Organization field is not mandatory. Click Forward when you’re ready to continue.
- This example will assume that you have a POP mail server. Most broadband (and dial-up) Internet Service Providers in North America provide their customers with POP mail. Enter the “incoming” mail server name in the Server: section, and your user name in the Username: section.
If you’re not sure of these settings, I’ve compiled a list of email settings for some of the larger North American broadband providers. If I didn’t list your ISP, contact them to find out these settings (tip: most ISP’s will have this information in a fairly obvious place in the Help section of their web site)
If you don’t want to enter your password each time you check your mail, place a check in the box labeled Remember password. When you’re done, click Forward.
- Place a check in the Automatically check for mail every __ minutes box (if you want) and review the other options. Click Forward
- On the Sending Email page, select the Server Type: that your ISP uses (again, you can refer to this page, or check with your ISP). Enter the appropriate Server: and settings. Most, but not all, outgoing mail servers now require authentication. When you’ve entered all of the information specific to your ISP, click Forward.
- And now give this email account a Name: so that you can easily identify it (in case you create additional email profiles in Evolution). Click Forward.
- Choose your Time Zone and again, click Forward.
- That’s it, you’re done! Click Apply.
- In all likelihood you’ll be prompted to enter your password as Evolution checks to see if you have new mail (for the first time). Enter it and click OK.
- And if all goes well, you’ll be presented with your (new) email. There will also be an “introduction” email from the Evolution developers that offers some tips on getting started using Evolution.
- To test out sending email by sending one to yourself. Click the New button and select Mail Message. Enter your own email address in the To: field, and whatever you want in the subject field. Click Send.
- You’ll be taken back to the main Evolution window. Now click the Send/Receive button to actually send your test message.
- The Send & Receive Mail window will appear.
- And you’ll (probably) be prompted to enter your password again.
- You may need to click Send/Receive again to get the test email.
- So now you can send and receive email. If you need any help with attachments, filtering spam etc - the Help menu actually provides very useful and straight forward instructions.
5 Responses to “How to set up Evolution for email”
By Ned on Oct 26, 2007 | Reply
Simplehelp,
OK, I’m new to UBUNTU (installed 7.04), I’m trying to set up the EVOLUTION e-mail thingy and I’m on your ’set-up-evolution page. I am on the web via a wireless connection and I have two email accounts; one with fishhoo.com, the other with bigstring.com neither was on your list of email settings. I went to both sites (fishhoo and bigstring) but could not find anything that looked like the required information. I feel like I am missing something quite simple. Help. Thanks.
Ned
By Ross McKillop on Oct 29, 2007 | Reply
@Ned:
Sorry I was out of town for a few days (hence the delay in my response). For bigstring.com email you need to have a “Premium” account in order to use it in Evolution (or any email client that supports POP mail - like Outlook, Outlook Express, Thunderbird, Evolution etc). I’m guessing you don’t have a premium account? If you DO have a premium account, you can find all the settings you’d need here: http://www.bigstring.com/userguides/setup/outlookxp.html
Fishhoo.com is the same thing - if you want to access your fishhoo mail in Evolution, you’ll need a ‘paid’ account (”Mail Plus Total Protection” or “Mail Plus Total Protection”). If you DO have a paid fishhoo account, the only way to get the settings (as far as I can tell) would be in the email that they send you when you sign up for the service.
Hope this helps!
Ross
By Rajan on Dec 9, 2007 | Reply
When evolution asks for a password which password should i enter…as evolution while setting up doesnt prompt for any password and when clicking the send and receive button it asks for a password so which password should i enter
By Rajan on Dec 9, 2007 | Reply
Its quite confusing which password should i enter as it doesnt ask for password while installing…. I am using ubuntu 7.10
Thanx
Rajan
By Kirill on May 7, 2008 | Reply
Hello,
I had a question regarding http://www.inbox.com I’m trying to set up Evolution to send/receive mail from that account. It appears that POP and SMTP are both going through my.inbox.com thats the server I used in preferences. At this moment I can download the mail from the server, but when it comes to sending saved messages the operation times out with a message:
“Error while performing operation.
Could not connect to my.inbox.com: Connection timed out”
Once again all the setup guides for other desktop email programs required the same my.inbox.com in both POP and SMTP fields, furthermore most had an option of using port #25, which I can’t choose since there isn’t any such prompts with Evolution program. Please, any ideas?