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

[Jeffrey Stedfast]

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On Wed, 2005-03-02 at 14:14 -0700, Evolution List wrote:
> Hi Raul,=20
>=20
> > 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 reall=
y
> > kill everything.
>=20
> 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.

perhaps you'd like to enlighten us on how to set off calendar alarms
without having any processes running?

evolution-alarm-daemon keeps running and possibly evolution-data-server
(I think alarm-daemon depends on this?)

evolution-exchange-storage does not

>   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). =20

???

>=20
> The more I kick Evolution (like one would kick a tire) the more I am
> beginning to realize that this program has a lot of problems that still
> need to be ironed out.  The last time I tried Evolution over a year ago
> it was a joke.  Constantly crashing.=20

wasn't constantly crashing for most people... if it was, we wouldn't
have shipped it.

> =20
>=20
> It's gotten a whole heck of a lot better and the developers and others
> involved in the 2.0 release are to be applauded but all this makes me
> wonder if I want to encourage business use of Evolution.  I need a
> robust and rock solid application and am wondering if Evolution fits
> that bill. =20

I'd say it is pretty robust.

>=20
> 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. =20

yes it did, that was a short lived bug that was caused by another fix
for broken pop servers.

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Jeffrey Stedfast
Evolution Hacker - Novell, Inc.
fejj@ximian.com  - www.novell.com

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