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+Evolution is a personal information management application that provides
+integrated mail, calendaring and address book functionality. Its user
+interface and functionality is similar to Microsoft Outlook.
+
+Evolution delivers the following features:
+ E-mail retrieval with the POP and IMAP protocols and e-mail
+ transmission with SMTP
+ Secure network connections encrypted with SSL, TLS and STARTTLS
+ E-mail encryption with GPG and S/MIME
+ E-mail filters
+ Search folders: saved searches that look like normal mail folders
+ as an alternative to using filters and search queries
+ Automatic spam filtering with SpamAssassin and Bogofilter
+ Calendar support for the iCalendar file format, the WebDAV and
+ CalDAV standards and Google Calendar
+ Contact management with local address books, CardDAV, LDAP and
+ Google address books
+ Synchronization via SyncML with SyncEvolution and with Palm OS
+ devices via gnome-pilot
+ Address books that can be used as a data source in LibreOffice
+ User avatars loading from address book, e-mail headers X-Face, Face
+ or automatic lookup by hashed e-mail address from Gravatar service
+ A news client
+ Import from Microsoft Outlook archives (dbx, pst) and Berkley Mailbox
+
+Below variables can be used to configure the build:
+ GCOV=yes : Enable build with GCOV code coverage
+ Requires gcov
+ GTKDOC=yes : Use gtk-doc to build documentation
+ TESTS=yes : Enable installed tests
+ SPAMASSASION=yes : Enable Spamasssasion support.
+ Requries Spamassasion
+ BOGOFILTER=yes : Enable Bogofilter support.
+ Requires Bogofilter
+ GNOMEDESKTOP=yes : Enable Gnome-Desktop support.
+ Requires gnome-desktop