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Operating System Tools

Notes The Menu Bar

Contents of menu bar always provide every possible action for any given view of your data. If
you are looking at your Inbox, most of the menu items relate to e-mail.

Did u know? Some content relates to other components of Evolution and some, particularly
in the File menu, relates to the application as a whole.
z z File: Anything related to a file or to the operations of the application is listed in this menu,
such as creating things, saving them to disk, printing them, and quitting the program itself.
z z Edit: Holds useful tools that help you edit text and move it around. Lets you access the
settings and configuration options in the Edit menu.

z z View: Lets you decide how Evolution should look. Some of the features control the
appearance of Evolution as a whole, and others the way a particular kind of information
appears.
z z Folder: Holds actions that can be performed on folders. You can find things like copy,
rename, delete, and so on.

z z Message: Holds actions that can be applied to a message. If there is only one target for the
action, such as replying to a message, you can normally find it in the Message menu.

z z Search: Lets you search for messages, or for phrases within a message. You can also see
previous searches you have made. In addition to the Search menu, there is a text entry box
in the toolbar that you can use to search for messages. You can also create a search folder
from a search.

z z Help: Opens the Evolution Help files.
E-Mail

Evolution e-mail is similar to other e-mail programs in many ways:

z z It can send and receive e-mail in HTML or as plain text, and makes it easy to send and
receive multiple file attachments.

z z It supports multiple e-mail sources, including IMAP, POP3, and local mbox or mh spools
and files created by other e-mail programs.

z z It can sort and organize your e-mail in a wide variety of ways with folders, searches, and
filters.

z z It lets you guard your privacy with encryption.
Nevertheless, Evolution has some significant differences as compared to other e-mail programs.
First, it is built to manage very large amounts of e-mail. The junk e-mail, message filtering
and searching functions were built for speed and efficiency. There’s also the search folder, an
advanced organizational feature not found in some e-mail clients. If you get a lot of e-mail, or
if you keep every message you get in case you need to refer to it later, you’ll find this feature
especially useful. Here’s a quick explanation of what’s happening in your main Evolution e-mail
window.

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