Re: [Evolution] [IMAP] Filtering and Expunging

[Pete Biggs <pete biggs org uk>]

On Thu, 2007-06-21 at 09:08 -0400, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-06-21 at 07:17 +0100, Pete Biggs wrote:
> > 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.
>
> Do you put Evo in offline mode before quitting the GUI? Since I never
> use offline mode I'm wondering if that's what makes the difference.
Nope just quit using the window 'x' button - I never use offline mode
either.  After you close down Evo try running lsof on the e-d-s process,
you will see that there are no IMAP connections active.  You should also
look at the netstat -a output to see if anything is talking IMAP.
Ultimately, I suppose you could use tcpdump/wireshark to see what IMAP
packets are flying around.

P.