evolution (1)

evolution [OPTIONS] [MAILTO]

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:[email protected]`. This will open a new composer window with an empty e-mail to `[email protected]`. More advanced expressions are also suppported, but should conform to RFC 2368.

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

-?, --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.

--express

Start in "express" mode.

--force-shutdown

Forcibly shut down all Evolution components.

--debug=FILE

Send the debugging output of all components to FILE.

--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.

--clutter-display=DISPLAY

X display to use.

--screen=SCREEN

X screen to use.

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

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

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.