How to set up email in Evolution on Linux

To add your LJPc hosting email address to Evolution on Linux, choose File, New and Mail Account, enter your name and email address and let Evolution look up the mail server. If your mail is delivered to us, Evolution finds our mail server ljpc.email on its own. If it finds nothing, choose IMAP+ with server ljpc.email, TLS on port 993 for incoming mail and port 465 for outgoing mail, and your full email address as the username.

What is Evolution mail?

Evolution is the free email and calendar application from the GNOME project for Linux. It brings your email, calendar, contacts, tasks and memos together in one window. For your LJPc hosting mailbox you use Evolution as an IMAP client: your messages stay on our server, so Evolution, your phone and webmail all show the same messages and folders.

How to install Evolution on Linux

Almost every Linux distribution ships Evolution. Install it from your distribution's software centre (search for Evolution) or with one command in a terminal:

Distribution packages often lag behind: Ubuntu 24.04 ships Evolution 3.52, while Debian 13 and Ubuntu 26.04 ship 3.56. Flathub has the latest release (3.62 in November 2026), published by the Evolution team itself. The steps below work in all of these versions.

What you need

• Your full email address, for example name@yourcompany.com.
• The password of that address. Lost it? Set a new one in the customer portal, as described further down.

Tip: sign in to webmail at ljpc.email first. If that works, you know your password is right before you set up Evolution.

Evolution email setup, step by step

1. Start Evolution. If you have no account yet, the assistant opens on its own with Welcome; click Next. If you already have an account, open File, New and Mail Account. Evolution 3.52 and later hide the menu bar: click the menu button (three lines) in the top right corner to reach File, or press the Alt key.
2. If you see the Restore from Backup page, click Next. If you have a backup of an earlier Evolution setup, you can choose it here.
3. On the Identity page, enter the name recipients should see under Full Name and your full email address under Email Address. Leave Look up mail server details based on the entered e-mail address ticked and click Next.
4. Evolution looks up the settings. When it finds them, it takes you straight to the Account Summary. Check that Receiving shows server type IMAP+ and server ljpc.email, that Sending shows server type SMTP and server ljpc.email, that the Username is your full email address and that Security says TLS. Give the account a name you will recognise under Name and click Next.
5. On the Done page, click Apply.
6. Evolution asks for the password of your email address. Enter it and tick the option to add the password to your keyring. If Evolution asks for a password again when you send your first message, that is for the outgoing server: enter the same password.

Your account now appears in the folder list with your mail in the Inbox. Our server's Drafts, Sent, Trash and Spam folders sit below it, and Evolution uses them automatically for drafts, sent mail, deleted mail and junk. That way your sent messages also show up on your phone and in webmail.

Evolution finds our mail server through your domain's MX record. When it points to our mail servers (mx1.ljpc.email and mx2.ljpc.email), the settings are found for you. If your mail passes through our premium spam filter or another provider first, Evolution will not find them and you enter the servers yourself once, as shown below.

Settings not found? Enter them manually

Click Skip Lookup while Evolution is searching, or untick the lookup option on the Identity page. Evolution then shows the pages for the server details:

1. On Receiving Email, choose IMAP+ as the Server Type. Enter ljpc.email as the Server, 993 as the Port and your full email address as the Username. Set Encryption method to TLS on a dedicated port and Authentication to Password. Click Next.
2. On Receiving Options, choose how often Evolution checks for new mail. If webmail filters sort your mail into other folders, tick Check for new messages in all folders. Click Next.
3. On Sending Email, choose SMTP as the Server Type. Enter ljpc.email as the Server and 465 as the Port, and set Encryption method to TLS on a dedicated port. Tick Server requires authentication, choose PLAIN as the Type and enter your full email address as the Username. Click Next.
4. Check the Account Summary, click Next and then Apply.

The Check for Supported Types button asks the server which sign-in methods it supports. Never choose No encryption: with TLS your password travels to the server encrypted.

Evolution IMAP and SMTP settings at a glance

Prefer POP? Use server ljpc.email with TLS on port 995. Settings for other apps and devices are in set up your email on your phone, tablet and computer.

With LJPc hosting every domain uses the same server name, ljpc.email, with a valid certificate. Your connection reaches the server that holds your mailbox automatically, and if our mail server goes down a second server takes over. You only set up Evolution once.

IMAP+ or POP: keep your mail on the server

Choose IMAP+, Evolution's IMAP implementation. Your mail stays on the server and Evolution, your phone and webmail show the same messages and folders. Evolution also keeps a copy on your computer so you can read mail offline. Whatever you move or delete in Evolution changes on the server too.

POP downloads your mail to your computer. If you use POP and want your messages to stay on the server as well, tick Leave messages on server under Receiving Options. Mail on the server counts towards your hosting plan's storage; see how much space your mail uses in check your storage usage.

Change the language of Evolution

Evolution has no language setting of its own: it follows the language of your desktop. In GNOME you change it like this:

1. Open Settings and choose Region & Language. In GNOME 46 and later it sits under System.
2. Click Language, pick English or Nederlands and click Select.
3. Log out and back in. Evolution then starts in the new language.

Using Evolution from your distribution and only want that one app in another language? Close it and start it from a terminal with LANGUAGE=en evolution for English or LANGUAGE=nl evolution for Dutch. The folders on the server stay the same whatever language Evolution uses.

Changed your password? Update it in Evolution

You set a new password for your email address yourself in the customer portal: choose Services and Sites, click the site with your email domain and click the key icon next to your address in the Email addresses block. The full steps are in set up your email on your phone, tablet and computer.

Evolution then asks for the new password the next time it checks your mail. If it does not, open Edit and Accounts, select your account and click Edit. On the Receiving Email page click Forget password, and do the same on Sending Email. Evolution drops the old password and asks for the new one next time. Update the password on your other devices too, so they keep receiving mail.

Edit or remove an account

All your accounts are under Edit and Accounts. Select one and click Edit to change the servers, the signature or the folders. On the Defaults page, the Lookup Folders button resets the drafts, sent, trash and junk folders to match the server. Delete removes an account from Evolution and the Enabled tick box switches it off for a while. With IMAP+ your mail stays on the server, so you can keep reading it in webmail and on your other devices.

Troubleshooting Evolution email

Moving your email to LJPc with Evolution

Moving your mail from another provider to LJPc? Evolution can help. Add both your old and your new address as IMAP+ accounts and drag your folders and messages from the old account to the new one. If new mail still arrives at your old server after the move, your domain's MX record has not been updated everywhere yet. Plan the move without losing anything with how to migrate email to a new server and what is an MX record.

Prefer another email app?

Thunderbird runs on Linux too; see how to set up email in Mozilla Thunderbird. Away from your own computer? Read the same mail in your browser with LJPc webmail. No email address on your domain yet? Create one in a minute as described in create an email address in the customer portal.

Need a hand? We are happy to help. Call +31 85 130 6429, email support@ljpc.nl or create a support ticket.