# A User's Guide to Ximian Evolution

Aaron
Weber
Kevin
Breit
Ettore
Perazzoli
Duncan
Mak
2000-2002
Ximian, Inc.

See the preface for legal information regarding the GNU General Public License and Free Documentation License.

This is version 1.2 of the Ximian Evolution manual. It describes version 1.2 of the Ximian Evolution groupware suite.

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## Getting Started with Ximian Evolution

Part one of the Ximian Evolution manual describes how to use Ximian Evolution for email, contact management, and appointment and task scheduling. You'll find as you go along that there's more than one way to do things, and you can pick whichever method you like best.

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## Configuring and Managing Ximian Evolution

Ximian Evolution is highly configurable. Usually, when developers say that, they mean that they didn't test it out thoroughly and have left it to other programmers to "configure" themselves a working system. In the case of Ximian Evolution, "configurable" means that, while you can expect the program to work perfectly well with the default settings, it's also easy to alter its behavior in a wide variety of ways, so that it fits your needs exactly. This part of the book will describe that process, from the quickest glimpse of the Setup Assistant to an in-depth guide to obscure preferences settings.

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