Re: [Evolution] Can someone please tell me what Evolution isdoinghere?

[Anders Näslund <Anders Naslund connecta se>]

Well, in a way it's initiated by Evo, since You probably sent the mail
out using Evo. The setting might also affect it (but thats a far cache).
But it's still another program that does the checking. Evo is just using
a component on Your PC to send mail (very different from a windows
machine that has both the send and receive mechanism in the same
program). Evo is just placing mail in the spool of Your local Sendmail
(or similar) to have it sent if thats what You told it in the server
settings tab.
What would happen if You just SU and say "Service sendmail stop" ?
Will the log entry go away or change??


/A


tor 2005-03-03 klockan 20:54 -0700 skrev Evolution List:
> Hi JP, 
>
> On Thu, 2005-03-03 at 18:08 -0500, JP Rosevear wrote:
> > On Thu, 2005-03-03 at 15:27 -0700, Evolution List wrote:
> > > > From previous posts to this list I now know that Evolution stays awake
> > > so to speak and keeps downloading messages for me, even after I exit the
> > > program.  But what I don't understand is what is is doing as seen in the
> > > log entries below from my Linux system log file.  I have set evolution
> > > to download mail every ten minutes.  If nothing else it certainly seems
> > > to be doing that quite faithfully :).  
> >
> > Maybe I missed this, but why do you consider this so?  The mail
> > libraries are not like e-d-s, they are linked directly to the program.
> > If the program exits, no mail checking can be going on.
> >
> > The output you pasted seems to be related to SMTP which is not something
> > Evolution would be grabbing mail from (SMTP listens on port 25).
>
> Well I would almost bet my bottom dollar that what is being logged in
> the system log is an Evolution initiated thing JP.  I could be wrong and
> thanks for pointing out that possibility.  I will change my email
> checking interval in Evolution to 7 minutes and see if it shows up in
> the logs.  
>
> I will also ask around on the Gentoo forum to see if anyone can help me
> prove whether this is an Evolution initiated thing or not.  
>
> As far as I know there is absolutely nothing else on my system doing
> anything at all with email anything every ten minutes.   Faithfully and
> consistently.  The only thing that even comes close is my setting in
> Evolution to check mail every ten minutes.  
>
> Whatever this is, it continues to do something with email every ten
> minutes even when I am logged out!  It continues to do something every
> ten minutes even when I am logged in as a different user like root.
>
> It's possible I suppose that a virus has gotten through to my networked
> computers though this is pretty improbable given that they are behind a
> NAT firewall such that I have not experienced a virus in years.  
>
> I'll do some more digging around.  Again I would bet my bottom dollar
> that this is an Evolution initiated thing though I could be wrong and I
> cannot as yet prove it.  I'll report back when and if I do prove
> it :).  
>
> Incidentally JP it has been my experience that Evolution continues to
> check for email when the program is closed out.  I will verify and
> report back if indeed that is true (though in my experience I don't
> understand how it could not be given that that I have closed Evolution
> out after reading all my email, and then some time later come back only
> to see 20-30 new unread messages immediately on opening it again).  
>
> Carlos 
>
>
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