Chapter 9. Communications
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9.1.2. Using Evolution
Evolution allows you to create, store and send email by clicking the appropriate buttons located on the top toolbar. Use the mouse to hover over each icon for a pop-up description of each button. You can also use the pull down menus to find each action as well as keyboard shortcuts for those actions.
These actions include creating New email messages, Send/Receive queued emails, replying to the sender of an email or replying to all recipients of an email, printing an email, deleting an email, and moving to the next or previous email in the folder. There are also buttons to mark an email as Junk or
Not Junk.
Do not miss important emails
Check your Junk folder frequently as you begin with Evolution and if needed, mark items that are Not Junk. Evolution will learn what is Junk and what is Not Junk with each item that you mark.
In the lower left section of Evolution are buttons to switch from the default email tasks to other tasks including Contacts, Calendar, Memos, and Tasks. As you select each of these components of
Evolution the toolbar at the top will adjust to provide buttons for the most common actions.
Using Contacts in emails
As you read an email, right click on the sender's email address and select Add to Address
Book.... This will add an entry to your contacts. When sending an email, click the To: or CC: buttons to select recipients from your contacts.
9.2. Thunderbird
Thunderbird Is Mozilla's email application. To install Thunderbird, refer to
Chapter 18, Managing software
You can install Thunderbird by either using the PackageKit or on the command line by using Yum. More information about Thunderbird is available at:
http://www.mozilla.org/support/ thunderbird/
. You can find add-ons for Thunderbird at:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird
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9.2.1. Configuring Thunderbird
To configure your email account you will need the email information provided by your ISP or email provider.
1. Open Thunderbird:
• in GNOME, go to the Activities overview. Type the first few letters of the application's name, then click on the icon that appears or press Enter. Alternatively, look for the Thunderbird icon in Applications
→ Internet.
• in KDE, click Kickoff Application Launcher
→
Applications
→
Internet
→ Email menu entry.
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https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/
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