I've just installed Evolution 3.10.4 on Ubuntu 14.04.3 LTS with Cinnamon desktop. So far I like it, but I'm having some problems.

1. Is there an Evolution maillist or some such Evolution support site?

2. I've configured 2 accounts: one for POP, one for IMAP -- different servers (personal, work). The POP accounts works just fine. The IMAP account works for sending (which means the SMTP works), but I can't get my mail. I've configured iPhone, Android, Outlook, roundCube to connect to the IMAP server and they all work. I believe I'm using the same settings for Evolution, but nothing. When I monitor the dovecot log on the IMAP server it shows nothing at all when I do send/receive on Evolution. Yet I can `telnet popserver.com 143 and it connects and shows in the dovecot log. It's as if Evolution isn't even trying the IMAP connection. I've tried ports 143 and 993, with and without TLS. Nada. Any idea what's going on?

3. On the POP account, I have a calendar. I've clicked Actions > Publish Calendar, but nothing at all happens. Why?

4. I've "labeled" one of the messages as 'Important' (right-click message > Label > Important). This is indicated on the 'Label' drop-down as a red square. However, the message does not show this anywhere. I can select 'Show > Important' and it does filter by that, but I'd like to see the red square somewhere in my message list view. Doable?

1. The standart Email client is Thunderbird.
2. Do you receive any error output, when you receive the emails from the imap account?
3. Try to use Google. I have found some pages with "Evoultion Email client doc".

Is your imap an exchange server? Then I would recommend thunderbird with exquilla add-on.

It works great. evolution is heavy too.

I'm still investigating Evolution. Mail server is Dovecot/IMAP. I've been testing Thunderbird, but the calendar add-on, Lightning, apparently does not refresh published calendars after initially publishing. If that's the way it is, Thunderbird will not be suitable for office use. The #1 need for office calendar software is being able to at least view shared calendars. I will reinstall and test Evolution on this. Perhaps I was just doing things wrong before. Does anyone actually know whether Evolution can publish shared calendars (WebDAV) and if they work? I could save myself some trouble if this is not a feature.

ISTR that evolution does publish webDAV, but maybe it needs an addon. Same for Exchange, you need the proper addon to make Evolution work with Exchange. I haven't used evolution in a good while, though. I just don't need all its features. Icedove (Debian Thunderbird) with Lightning does all I need, but I realize that isn't enough for everybody. For an Outlook replacement, you really need evolution. In general, if Outlook can do it, Evolution can do it, but you may need to install some plugins. You'll need to read the documentation.

Thanks, that is encouraging. We don't use Exchange with Outlook, we use Dovecot/IMAP on a Samba4 Active-Directory/Domain-Controller. We dropped Exchange after Microsoft discontinued its ability to run on their SBS AC/DC replacement: Server Essentials (too bad because were were quite happy with SBS for over a decade!).

I like Thunderbird -- it runs on Windows and Linux -- but if it (Lightning) doesn't refresh published WebDAV calendars after initially publishing its pretty useless as an office calendaring tool. Seems silly; if Lightning can publish, why can't it periodically refresh? Probably a bug. I might try Lightning and CalDEV, but so far it seems pretty non-trivial to set up a CalDEV server with Apache.

I'll post back results on Evolution experimentation ...

Well, if it's not one thing it's another! Evolution's labels are named and colored the same as Thunderbird's tags, but unlike Tbird, Evolution does not set the IMAP flag letters on the actual mail files Show stopper right there. Our director lives by Outlook color categories and I can export Outlook's categories and map to IMAP flags which are interpreted correctly by Tbird. Evolution must maintain its labels in some config file, not as part of the IMAP message file name. Dead end for me.

I guess my next attempt will be to see if I can get a CalDAV server going and see if tbird/lightning works better with that. Bummer.