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

[Raul Acevedo]

On Wed, 2005-03-02 at 16:40 -0500, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote:

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

I don't expect you to set off alarms when the process isn't running.
This might sound strange, but it hadn't even occurred to me.  I only
need the alarms when evolution is actually running.

Having said that, it makes sense to have a background daemon... which
should be optional.  Especially when the alarm daemon takes 60MB of RAM,
and the data server takes over 70MB.  I suppose I can live with the
background process, but it shouldn't take that much memory to run a
simple alarm server.

For appointments that show up in the calendar panel applet, that should
not require a background process after evolution quits.  No changes are
going to happen to the schedule while I'm not logged in to evolution.

Also, it should be possible to --force-shutdown from a shell without
DISPLAY being set.  Should I file a bug for this, or is it by design?

> I'd say it is pretty robust.

Evolution is pretty robust... but Connector is not.  Lots of random
crashes and usability issues.  It has come a long way, but I'd rate
evolution proper to be production quality, while Connector is definitely
still beta.  It's come a long way though, and I know the team is working
hard on it, so I'm still happy to use it.

Raul