Re: [Evolution] [IMAP] Filtering and Expunging

[Pete Biggs <pete biggs org uk>]

On Wed, 2007-06-20 at 19:38 -0400, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-06-20 at 21:45 +0100, Pete Biggs wrote:
> > On Wed, 2007-06-20 at 14:36 -0400, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> > > On Wed, 2007-06-20 at 16:38 +0100, michael wrote:
> > > > (although evolution-data-server-1.6 was there for the initial second
> > > > after close down).
> > >
> > > Just for kicks I quit Evo and waited a while. evolution-data-server was
> > > still there half an hour later and stayed there when I fired up Evo
> > > again. Same PID the whole time.
> >
> > Yes, evo-data-server hangs around, but on my system it doesn't filter if
> > evo itself isn't active.  I can also see on the server that the IMAP
> > connection is closed down when I quit evo. This is Fedora 7 & Gnome.  I
> > wonder if it's anything to do with the backend IMAP server (I'm using
> > dovecot).
>
> My IMAP server is Cyrus. I'd be surprised if that matters though.
>
> My conclusion that filters are still active is based on observing that
> when I leave e-d-s running on (say) my office machine, by the time I get
> home I find a bunch of messages in my Inbox and *also* filed into their
> various folders (i.e. physically distinct copies -- I made sure of this
> by looking at the message files on the Cyrus server). At first I thought
> this was a problem with my filter rules, but after checking my filter
> log I'm convinced that it isn't.
>
> I conjecture that the reason the messages are still in my Inbox is that
> the e-d-s session on the office machine has refiled them and marked them
> for deletion, but because there is no active GUI on that machine the
> local state has not been synched with the server, so when I fire up a
> new Evo session at home I see them as still present.
>
> This behaviour went away when I started killing e-d-s before changing
> machines.
>
> If anyone has a better explanation I'd be glad to hear it.

No explanation I'm afraid, but I've just checked the open files on the
evo processes.  e-d-s does not have any IMAP connections active, it only
has ldap/ical external connections. All the IMAP processes belong to
evolution itself and they all get shutdown once the evo gui has quit.

P.