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Marc Lorber
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# What account types are supported

Evolution supports these types of accounts:

Email access — receiving and sending

Contacts

Calendars, Tasks and Memos

Collection accounts

RSS feeds

# Collection Account

This account type can for a single user name bind several data sources together - Email (like IMAP, POP3, SMTP), Contacts (like CardDAV, LDAP), Calendars (like CalDAV), Task Lists, Memo Lists. Some of these, like CalDAV or CardDAV accounts, can add all the address books, calendars, task lists or memo lists from the server and keep them in sync with the content advertised by the server.

To setup this account type, select File New Collection account. To discover only sources, not requiring authentication, leave Email Address or User name empty and fill Advanced options Server.

# RSS feeds

To configure an RSS feed select Edit Preferences News and Blogs.

# The Evolution Accounts window

An overview of all configured Evolution Accounts is available under Edit Accounts.

Each Collection account shows there its own Mail Accounts, Address Books, Calendars, Memo Lists and Task Lists, as announced by the server. Unfolding each type allows to enable or disable the local synchronization for that source.

For enabled Collection accounts with CalDAV and CardDAV sources the Refresh button fetches the list of remote sources locally and requests from the server the color and name of the WebDAV collections. If they were modified remotely, but not locally, the local name and color are synchronized from the server. The list of the sources is refreshed implicitly daily.

When a WebDAV-based account is selected, the Browse button displays the WebDAV editor.

# The WebDAV Editor

WebDAV is the common protocol for CalDAV, CardDAV, Notes. A WebDAV collection is a directory, which can contain events, contacts, other collections. The WebDAV editor shows the collections, announced by the server, and allows editing some of their properties on the server. It allows creating new address books, calendars and general collections. Servers might enforce restrictions, like prohibiting the creation of a calendar beneath another calendar or preventing changing some properties. A single WebDAV calendar can store events, tasks, memos.