Re: [Evolution] Does Evolution retrieve email even when it is not being run??

[JP Rosevear <jpr novell com>]

On Wed, 2005-03-02 at 14:14 -0700, Evolution List wrote:
> Hi Raul, 
>
> > Approximately 2-3 evolution processes stay around running in the
> > background after you quit: evolution-alarm-notify,
> > evolution-data-server, and evolution-exchange-storage (if you use
> > Connector).  I'm not sure if all of those stay around, but at least a
> > couple do.  Running evolution-2.0 --force-shutdown is supposed to really
> > kill everything.
>
> Hmm...not good.  No, not good at all.  I sure don't appreciate an
> application doing stuff like this without anything in the documentation
> to even suggest this.  Or worse the inability to make it stop (short of
> a logging in and logging out - though I still need to test whether it
> actually stops even through that).  

As jeff noted in another reply, this is to create alarms without evo
running.  Also in gnome things like the clock use e-d-s to provide
calendar data and the contact applet to provide quick search for
contacts.  This happens all the time for apps, for instance gconf is
started by most gnome apps.

> Even when I looked at the recent bugs fixed list I couldn't believe that
> Evolution had, until the bug was fixed, not kept emails on a POP server
> when told to do that.  Among a huge list of other bugs.  

That was a transient development version bug that occurred during
unstable development in 2.1.x.  It worked fine in 1.4, 2.0 and now in
2.1.6.

-JP
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JP Rosevear <jpr novell com>
Novell, Inc.