NAME

       evolution - groupware suite for GNOME containing e-mail, calendar, addressbook, to-do list and memo tools

SYNOPSIS

       evolution [OPTIONS] [MAILTO]

DESCRIPTION

       This  manual  page briefly introduces the evolution command.  Evolution is a graphical groupware suite, a
       single application for reading and sending e-mail and for managing calendars, address books, notes, to-do
       lists and memos.  It is written for the GNOME graphical desktop.

       An optional MAILTO expression can be specified, typically invoked from another  application.  An  example
       MAILTO expression is `mailto:username@example.com`. This will open a new composer window with an empty e-
       mail  to  `username@example.com`. More advanced expressions are also supported, but should conform to RFC
       2368.

       For a more detailed explanation of Evolution, please see the Help menu.

OPTIONS

       -?, --help
              Show a help message listing all the options and their meanings.

       -c, --component=COMPONENT
              Start Evolution by activating the desired component.  COMPONENT  is  one  of  `mail',  `calendar',
              `contacts', `tasks' or `memos'.

       --offline
              Start in offline mode.

       --online
              Start in online mode.

       --force-online
              Ignore network availability.

       --force-shutdown
              Forcibly shut down all Evolution components.

       --disable-eplugin
              Disable loading of any plugins.

       --disable-preview
              Disable preview pane of Mail, Contacts and Tasks.

       -i, --import
              Import URIs or file names given as rest of arguments.

       -q, --quit
              Request a running Evolution process to quit.

       --display=DISPLAY
              X display to use.

              In addition, the usual GTK+ and GNOME command line options apply.
              See the output of --help for details.

SEE ALSO

       http://projects.gnome.org/evolution/

AUTHOR

       Evolution was originally developed by the company Ximian, now a part of Novell.  Evolution is now part of
       GNOME, and many people have touched the code.  See the "About" item in the "Help" menu for a list.

       This manual page was originally written by Lars Wirzenius for the Debian system.

GNOME                                              2004-11-06                                       EVOLUTION(1)