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Preferences Mail Accounts Edit Receiving Email to the "root" folder if you are using a variant of the ~/.offlineimaprc file from OfflineIMAP setup . You can also choose to "check for new messages" more frequently in Receiving Options (like every minute instead of every 60 minutes) since this process will only check your local copy and not the server-side copy. See Access a Gmail IMAP via Evolution [dead link 2024-12-15—HTTP 404] or Access a Gmail POP Account via Evolution [dead link 2024-12-15—HTTP 404] in GNOME Help. You may also be interested in reading Check Gmail through other email platforms (for IMAP) or Read Gmail messages on other email clients using POP in Gmail Help to manually fill in the following fields/checkboxes under Receiving Mail and/or Sending Mail in the Evolution Mail Configuration Assistant: The assistant will automatically configure your settings for receiving/sending mail via Gmail if you check Look up mail server details based on the entered e-mail address in the Identity section. Note that the assistant will always default to IMAP for receiving mail. You can instead add a Google Account through Settings Online Accounts if you are using GNOME. You can use your Gmail calendar in Evolution with one of two methods (barring GNOME Online Accounts as mentioned in Gmail setup ). Follow the steps under "Get your calendar (view only)" in Google's Calendar Help to obtain the "secret address in iCal format" for your desired calendar. Then follow the steps under Using a WebDev calendar [dead link 2024-12-15—HTTP 404] in GNOME Help. Use the previously obtained secret address for the address in the URL field. Follow the steps under Using a Google calendar [dead link 2024-12-15—HTTP 404] in GNOME Help. You may need to grant GNOME Evolution access to your Google Account if prompted. Similarly with Gmail calendar , you can also sync your Google contacts in Evolution. See Using a Google addressbook in GNOME Help for more information. If your email is locally hosted on a Microsoft Exchange Server or cloud hosted on Office 365, you can use IMAP/POP and SMTP to access your email. However, some additional features such as access to Outlook Calendar and contact management are only available if you connect to the Microsoft Exchange Server or Office 365 server using Microsoft's proprietary Exchange ActiveSync (EAS) protocol. There are two methods by which you can add/manage a Microsoft Exchange account in Evolution, but both will require Evolution EWS . Install the gnome-online-accounts package if it is not already present. Then select Online Accounts in GNOME Settings and add a new Microsoft Exchange account with the following values: E-mail Your e-mail address (e.g. [email protected]) Password Your e-mail account password or an app password from Username Your e-mail address once more Server outlook.office365.com Your Exchange account should be listed alongside your other online accounts after clicking Connect . Choose what you want to synchronize (by default, all features are enabled). You still need to use outlook.office365.com for the Server field during account configuration if your e-mail address uses a custom domain. Enabling 2FA will prevent connections to the Exchange Server . See ; in particular, the introduction and "Configure the account in Evolution" for users of free accounts. In other words, users of free accounts do not need to concern themselves with application/tenant IDs since they cannot use OAuth2. See Spell checking in GNOME Help. Evolution uses Enchant through gspell , so you can use checkers other than Hunspell to facilitate spell checking. It is possible to change the advertised ciphers used to secure the connection to the server. Evolution does not provide a switch to change the settings for the used ciphers. However, since Evolution uses GnuTLS , it is possible to change the settings using environment variables. One way to change these settings is to copy the /usr/share/applicatio