Use this tutorial to understand how to set up Evolution to work with your email account.
To Set Up Evolution
- From the Edit menu, select Preferences.
- Select Mail Accounts, and click Add(+).
- In the Account Management screen, enter a name to identify this account and click Forward.
- In the Identity screen, enter your full name, email address and any optional information you want to include and then click Forward.
- In the Receiving Email screen, select POP from the Server Type list and complete the following fields. When you are finished click Forward.
- Under Configuration, in the Server field, enter popmail.yourdomainname.com as your incoming server name.
(replace mail.yourdomain.com with Your domain e.g. if your domain is bobsite.com then it should be mail.bobsite.com)
- In the User Name field, enter your email address.
- From the Authentication Type list, select Password.
- In the Receiving Options screen, set your preferences and click Forward.
- In the Sending Email screen, select SMTP from the Server Type list and complete the following fields. When you are finished, click Forward.
- Under Server Configuration, in the Server field, type mail.yourdomainname.com.
(replace mail.yourdomain.com with Your domain e.g. if your domain is bobsite.com then it should be mail.bobsite.com)
- Under the Authentication list, select Login and enter your full email address.
- Click Apply to complete the configuration process.
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