Feature Overview

In this guide, you will learn how to set up Evolution for Linux for a TU Dresden mailbox. You can then send and receive emails, view the calendar and continue with setting up your personal certificate and encryption.

Installation

• via Flatpak (includes Exchange component):

  flatpak install flathub org.gnome.Evolution

• via apt:

  sudo apt-get install evolution evolution-ews 

Setup

1. Start the Evolution program. If the “Welcome” window appears, continue with step 2.
   Call up the New menu via the drop-down button. Select the “Email account” entry here.

   

2. Select the “Next” button in the “Welcome” step and proceed in the same way in the “Restore from backup file” step, which only appears during the initial setup.

   

3. The “Identity” step appears.
   On the identity screen, enter your name in the “Full Name” field as it should be displayed for recipients.
   Enter your primary email address as the “Email Address”, this usually takes the form “firstname.lastname@[mailbox.]tu-dresden.de”.
   (You can find your primary email address in the profile of the Self-Service Portal in the “E-mail“ section as “Primary email address”.)
   Finally, deactivate the checkbox “Look up mail server details based on the entered e-mail address”.
   Then click on “Next”.

   

4. The “Receiving Email” step appears.
   Select “Exchange Web Services” as the “Server type”.
   Enter your ZIH login in the form “user\<ZIH login>” in the “Username” field.
   Enter the following URL in the “Host URL” field: https://msx.tu-dresden.de/EWS/Exchange.asmx
   Make sure that “NTLM” is activated in the “Authentication” section in the selection field.
   Then click on “Finish”. (Your email address is automatically used as the account name).

   
5. In the next step “Done”, confirm by clicking on “Apply”.

   

6. The “Legitimization request” dialog appears. 
   Enter your ZIH login in the form “user\<ZIH login>” in the “User name” field.
   Enter your ZIH password in the “Password” field.

   

7. The “Calendar legitimization request” dialog appears. (If the window from the previous step is still in the foreground, select the window behind it for the calendar query).
   Repeat the entry of the login data as in step 6 to legitimize the existing calendars and task lists.

   

    

   

8. Your account has now been successfully set up.