Reading and Writing Email with Evolution

Many Internet users read and respond to their email using web-based email services. If you access your mail this way, the preceding chapter on web browsing with Mozilla provided you with the necessary skills to access your email within Linux.

If, on the other hand, you are accustomed to accessing your mail with a standalone mail program such as Microsoft Outlook, or your Internet service provider (ISP) or company has given you a so-called POPmail or IMAP email account that you need to use, this chapter helps you get email up and running.

In Fedora Core 4, dedicated email tools are provided by a full-featured mail and calendar program called Evolution that is in many ways similar to the Microsoft Outlook ...

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