E-mail, Calendaring and Collaboration
Novell Evolution 2
The most popular groupware client for Linux, Novell® Evolution™ integrates e-mail, calendaring, tasks and contact management in one easy-to-use application. As part of Novell Linux Desktop, Novell Evolution integrates smoothly with other applications and communications tools and connects to corporate communications architectures including Novell GroupWise® and Microsoft Exchange.features
Standards SupportNovell Evolution embraces mail, calendar and address book standards to ease data sharing.
Supported mail protocols include IMAP, POP, SMTP and Authenticated SMTP, as well as Microsoft Exchange 2000 and 2003. Novell GroupWise support is currently in beta.
iCalendar support allows users in disparate collaboration servers to share meeting information, publish this information and subscribe to calendars published on the Web (webcal).
Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) support enables users to access their existing company address books. Users can also share contact information using vCard message attachments.
Security and Encryption
Industry-standard encryption, including support for PGP/GPG, SASL and SSL/TLS,
ensures message security.
E-mail Client
Novell Evolution connects to corporate communications architectures, including
Microsoft Exchange and Novell GroupWise.
The message composer auto-completes e-mail addresses stored in the
Contacts list.
View options allow users to view e-mail chronologically, by author or
by thread. Custom folders can be color-coded to note priority or
type, and vFolders, dynamic saved searches, provide convenient
access to messages spread across multiple folders.
User-defined filters automatically move or process incoming and outgoing mail
into specific, customizable folders.
Account-management
tools enable users to receive, manage and organize messages from
multiple e-mail accounts.
New integration with SpamAssassin enables client-side junk-mail
filtering.
Enhanced offline access for IMAP mail is also included in Novell Evolution.
Calendar
Users can create customized reminders for their events that open
windows or play sounds. A "snooze-button"
feature allows users to delay the reminder.
iCalendar support enables users to arrange appointments and schedule
meetings with Microsoft Exchange, and other
applications that support the iCalendar standard.
Group scheduling helps users schedule meetings, view attendee
availability and allocate resources with other users in
organizations running on Microsoft Exchange.
Free/busy searches enable users to publish and view schedules to
facilitate the planning of group meetings.
The new overlay feature enables users to view multiple calendars so
they can see their personal calendars as well as those of
coworkers, work groups and others in a single color-coded view.
This allows users to see conflicts or possible events without
using the free/busy search.
New support for Web-based and multiple local calendars extends the
ability to add any valid .ics file to calendar views, allowing
users or workgroups to track events without leaving their
Novell Evolution Calendar view.
Contact Management
Users can keep track of their business associates, friends and family
by adding them to their contact list and maintaining multiple
contact folders.
LDAP support enables users to access their existing company address
books without changing collaboration infrastructure.
Userscan save time with address auto-completion, a feature that uses
locally stored contacts or those found in LDAP directories to
automatically complete e-mail addresses. They can also share,
receive and save contacts using built-in vCard support.
Task and To-do List
Users can organize their work by entering to-do items into the task
component. Summary, description, due dates, priorities, and
categories can be entered. Users can then view their items by
date, priority, deadlines and other criteria or view tasks in
the integrated calendar view.
Extensible Architecture
Novell Evolution 2.0 includes the new Novell Evolution Data Server component that
exposes Evolution-accessible data (such as mail, calendar and
contacts) to the rest of the desktop applications. For example,
users can view appointments and tasks in the desktop panel calendar,
display appointment reminders in the panel notification area and add
buddies to their Gaim instant messaging client by adding them to the
Novell Evolution address book. This enables
independent application developers to access collaboration
server data (such as Novell GroupWise) without writing code for
each server type.
Users can issue meeting invitations and view colleague availability.
Built-in Microsoft Exchange Support
Users can communicate directly with built-in WebDAV support,
eliminating the need to maintain separate IMAP e-mail server
access to support Linux and UNIX users.
From within Novell Evolution, users can view, edit and update e-mail,
address books, calendars and task folders on the Exchange
server.
Using existing global address lists, users can access names, addresses
and contact information from the Exchange Global Address List.
Public folder support allows users to share documents and files in
existing Exchange public folders. They can also create new
public folders for collaboration.
Through the Manage Permissions feature, users can control access to
personal and public folders, calendars and task lists.
With
the proper authorization, users can open other users' calendars
or shared folders.
The Out-of-Office Assistant helps users create custom vacation or
notification messages that run on the Exchange server.
Through the Calendar Delegation feature, users can set permissions to
allow others to view their calendars. Users can also delegate
permission to a colleague (for example, an administrative
assistant) to accept and schedule meetings in their calendars.
Direct resource booking reserves resources such as conference rooms or
vehicles for your meetings and appointments.
The new mailbox- and folder-size features display Exchange server
quota notifications to keep mailbox sizes down.
S/MIME protocol support (New Feature)
S/MIME certificate support gives users a higher level of authentication
in their correspondence. This feature ensures that messages are
digitally signed and encrypted. Users can view, manage and
import certificates and recognize additional certificate
authorities with a centralized certificate-management tool.
Palm Device Support
Users can access the latest information with two-way synchronization
between Novell Evolution (calendar, address book and task list) and
their Palm handheld devices.
additional information
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