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Evolution

Manage your email, contacts and schedule.

  • Completely free
  • Linux
  • Open source

Overview

Evolution is a task management program, available on Linux.

Features described in its Debian package description and in its Wikipedia article: central authentication (LDAP, SSO…).

Services and protocols mentioned: WebDAV, IMAP and SMTP.

Overview written by LicitPro from the documentation published by the authors and the cited sources; we have not tried the resource ourselves.

Excerpts that establish this information
  • “Evolution is a groupware suite which integrates mail, calendar, address book, to-do list and memo tools.” — Debian, 10 November 2026
  • “Additional features include integration with Exchange servers, newsgroup client, LDAP support and web calendars” — Debian, 10 November 2026

At a glance

Evolution is completely free: it is open source software, and every feature is available without paying or subscribing.

Its licence could not be established at the source: check the terms on the official website.

Strengths

  • Open source code
  • No advertising
  • Commercial use allowed

About

Evolution is a personal information management application that provides integrated mail, calendaring and address book functionality. Evolution supports a wide range of industry standard data formats and network protocols for information exchange, with an emphasis on standards compliance and security. Evolution can also integrate smoothly with Microsoft Exchange by way of the “Exchange Web Services” (EWS) extension.

Description from Flathub — AppStream (Flathub)

Sources and checks

  • Facts collected from LicitPro manual check (account, watermark, free status, ads, commercial use) —
  • Facts collected from Flathub (credit card, source code, publisher, licence, free status, platforms, commercial use, version) —
  • Facts collected from Wikidata (platforms) —
  • Last technical check: 5 November 2026
  • Facts manually checked on 10 November 2026
  • Description from Flathub — AppStream (Flathub)

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