The default tool for email and groupware in Red Hat Enterprise Linux is called Evolution. Evolution provides not only the email access, but also the ability to maintain a calendar, tasklist and contacts database.
What is Evolution?
Evolution is a full-featured personal and workgroup information management tool for Linux systems, and is the default email client for Red Hat Enterprise Linux. It provides all of the standard email client features, including powerful mailbox management, user-defined filters, and quick searches. Its additional feature is a flexible calendar/scheduler, which allows users to create and confirm group meetings and special events online.
Answer option C is incorrect. Thunderbird is a graphical mail client that offers email, Usenet and rss support but it does not support groupware features. Thunderbird is provided along with Firefox and others as part of the Mozilla suit of application.
What is groupware?
Groupware refers to programs that help users work together collectively while located remotely from each other.
Groupware services can include the sharing of calendars, collective writing, e-mail handling, shared database access, electronic meetings with each user able to see and display information to others, and other activities. Sometimes called collaborative software, groupware is an integral component of a field of study known as Computer-
Supported Cooperative Work or CSCW.
Answer options A and D are incorrect. The mutt and pidgin are Non-GUI mail clients.
What is mutt? mutt is a powerful tool for managing email within a text-only environment. This tool is very important to access email even when a graphical interface is not available. Some of its strengths are handling of message threads and flexibility. When mutt sees a series of related messages, it displays each reply under the parent. mutt supports sending of attachments through a mail. The following example describes how a file can be attached to a mail: echo " Sending an attachment. " | mutt -a backup.zip -s " attachment " local@domain.com
This command will send a mail to local@domain.com with the subject (-s) " attachment " , the body text " Sending an
attachment. " , containing the attachment (-a) backup.zip.
What is Pidgin?
Pidgin is a multi-protocol Instant Messaging client that allows a user to use all of his IM accounts at once. It is a free software that can work with AIM ,Gadu-Gadu, Jabber, ICQ ,IRC, MSN, SILC, XMPP, Yahoo!, and Zephyr Network. Anyone is
free to use it and modify it, but if a user distributes his modifications, he must distribute the modified source code as well.
The license of this communication software is Freeware, i.e. anyone can freely download and use this communication software.
