Re: [Evolution] [IMAP] Filtering and Expunging

[michael <cs networkingnewsletter org uk>]

On Wed, 2007-06-20 at 09:06 -0400, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: 
> On Wed, 2007-06-20 at 13:25 +0100, michael wrote:
> > However, POC said:
> >
> > "simply quitting Evo isn't enough. You have to log out or use
> > the '--force-shutdown' option to make sure the back end is no longer
> > active"
> >
> > But I've not noticed this problem (but I do use CNTL-E every so
> > often!)
> > but surely 'CNTL -D' marks it as deleted locally and moves said email
> > to
> > the Trash. Then there's options to empty Trash on exit every time
> > which
> > worked just now (as in all deleted messages disappeared when
> > restarted)
> > when I tested it.  
>
> If you expunge just before quitting Evo, then as far as explicit deletes
> go you're OK. However the backend still keeps filtering new mail, and
> every filter rule which refiles messages in folders is actually copying
> them and deleting the original, so we're back where we started.
>
> This drove me crazy till I figured it out :-)

Okay, I'd forgotten that the OP had asked (originally!) about filters
(rather than just about (manually) deleting an email).

So, you're saying the filters run even when Evolution closes? When I
quit evolution (CNTL Q - safer than X on title bar IMHO) then I have
michael ratty:~/Fortran/chkSize$ ps -elf | grep -i evo

0 S michael   3900     1  0  75   0 - 16985 stext  Jun19 ?
00:00:00 /usr/lib/evolution/2.6/evolution-alarm-notify
--oaf-activate-iid=OAFIID:GNOME_Evolution_Calendar_AlarmNotify_Factory:2.6 --oaf-ior-fd=50

0 S michael   7395     1  0  76   1 -  6863 -      13:21 ?        
00:00:00 /usr/bin/perl -T -w /usr/sbin/spamd
--socketpath /home/michael/.evolution/cache/tmp/spamd-socket-path-Sjnp7o
--max-children=1
--pidfile /home/michael/.evolution/cache/tmp/spamd-pid-file-Hzkmpo

0 S michael   7556     1  0  76   1 -  6865 -      13:22 ?
00:00:00 /usr/bin/perl -T -w /usr/sbin/spamd
--socketpath /home/michael/.evolution/cache/tmp/spamd-socket-path-QACfBp
--max-children=1
--pidfile /home/michael/.evolution/cache/tmp/spamd-pid-file-VDmwVp

(although evolution-data-server-1.6 was there for the initial second
after close down).

None of these would do this "background" filtering. I've never noticed
any filtering going on after I've closed Evo. By "backend" I presume you
do mean some Evo-related process on the users' machine?

M