Email and Calendar
is an advanced personal
information management system that integrates with email servers and calendar
servers. Email and Calendar
contains the following
component applications:
Calendar
You can use Calendar
to schedule appointments,
meetings, and tasks.
Contacts
You can use Contacts
to create an address book
of your contacts.
Email
You can use Email and Calendar
to compose, send,
receive, and manage email messages.
Summary
Summary
gives you an overview of your day. Summary
displays an overview of your email messages, and your appointments,
meetings, and tasks.
Tasks
You can use Tasks
to manage the work tasks that
you perform.
You can use connectors to connect to other email and calendar servers.
Email and Calendar
is based
on the Evolution 1.4
application, developed by
Novell, Inc.
To start Email and Calendar
, click Launch, then choose Email and Calendar.
Figure 1–1 shows an Email and
Calendar
window that displays Summary
.
The Email and Calendar
window contains the
following items:
Contains menus that you
use to perform tasks in Email and Calendar
. Different
menu items are available, depending which application you use.
Contains buttons that you
use to perform tasks in Email and Calendar
. Different
toolbar buttons are available, depending which application you use.
Displays
your shortcuts. Shortcuts are icons that provide quick access to your folders.
The shortcuts bar is located at the extreme left side of the Email and Calendar
window.
To display the shortcuts bar, choose View -> Shortcut Bar so that the Shortcut Bar menu item is selected.
To hide the shortcuts bar, choose View -> Shortcut Bar again, so that the Shortcut Bar menu item is deselected.
Displays
a list of your folders. The folder pane is located at the left side of the Email and Calendar
window.
To display the folder pane, choose View -> Folder Bar so that the Folder Bar menu item is selected. Alternatively, click on the name of the current folder at the top of the message list.
To hide the folder pane, choose View -> Folder Bar again, so that the Folder Bar menu item is deselected. Alternatively, click on the Close button at the top of the folder pane.
Most Email and Calendar
components
also contain a searchbar. You can use the searchbar to perform simple searches.
For example, you can search an email folder such as Inbox
for a message that contains a particular text string.