Email & email software
Add gmail account to mail client
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Open Application Menu and search for evolution.
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Open evolution mail client.
- Follow setup wizard which will pop up after you open evolution.
Change default mail account
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Open Evolution mail client.
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Click edit and then preferences.
- In the window click on desired account to be default and click default in right sidebar
Change default mail application
When you click a button or link to send a new email (for example, in your word processing application), your default mail application will open up with a blank message, ready for you to write. However, if you have more than one mail application installed, the wrong mail application might open up. You can fix this by changing which one is the default email application:
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Open Application Menu and click settings.
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Click on Details to open the panel.
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Choose Default Applications from the list on the left side of the window.
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Choose which email client you would like to be used by default by changing the Mail option.
Do I need to scan my emails for viruses?
Viruses are programs that cause problems if they manage to find their way onto your computer. A common way of them getting onto your computer is through email messages.
Viruses that can affect computers running Linux are quite rare, so you are unlikely to get a virus through email or otherwise. If you receive an email with a virus hidden in it, it will probably have no effect on your computer. As such, you probably don’t need to scan your email for viruses.
You may, however, wish to scan your email for viruses in case you happen to forward a virus from one person to another. For example, if one of your friends has a Windows computer with a virus and sends you a virus-infected email, and you then forward that email to another friend with a Windows computer, then the second friend might get the virus too. You could install an anti-virus application to scan your emails to prevent this, but it’s unlikely to happen and most people using Windows and Mac OS have anti-virus software of their own anyway.