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

Ron Johnson ron.l.johnson@cox.net
Wed, 02 Mar 2005 17:20:47 -0600


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On Wed, 2005-03-02 at 17:48 -0500, Tom Guilderson wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-03-02 at 16:40 -0500, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote:
> > On Wed, 2005-03-02 at 14:14 -0700, Evolution List wrote:
> > > Hi Raul, 
> > > 
> > > > 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 really
> > > > kill everything.
> > > 
> > > 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).  
> > 
> > ???
> 
> That is part of the problem, logging out does not stop all of the
> evolution processes (at least on Linux).  I consider this either a bug
> or a design flaw (I hope it is a bug)
> 
> FYI - running evo 2.0.3 on Gentoo using enlightenment (not Gnome).
> 
> while evo was running:
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[snip]
> twg       7443     1  0 17:08 ?
> 00:00:00 /usr/libexec/evolution-data-server-1.0
> --oaf-activate-iid=OAFIID:GNOME_Evolution_DataServer_InterfaceCheck
> --oaf-ior-fd=21
> 
> This is not good

I see the same thing.  User "heather" is logged out, but e-d-s
and bonobo-activation-server are still running.

Debian Sid, GNOME 2.8

evolution             2.0.3-1.2 The groupware suite
evolution-data-server 1.0.3-2   evolution database backend server
libedataserver3       1.0.3-2   Utily library for evolution data servers
bonobo-activation     2.4.0-4   The GNOME Bonobo support binaries
libbonobo-activation4  2.4.0-4  The GNOME Bonobo ibrary (dummy package)
libbonobo2            1.0.22-2.2  The GNOME Bonobo library.
libbonobo2-0          2.8.1-2   Bonobo CORBA interfaces library
libbonobo2-common     2.8.1-2   Bonobo CORBA interfaces library --
                                support files
libbonoboui2-0        2.8.1-1   The Bonobo UI library
libbonoboui2-common   2.8.1-1   The Bonobo UI library -- common files

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