SYNOPSIS evolution [OPTIONS] [MAILTO] DESCRIPTION This manual page briefly introduces the evolution command. Evolution is a graphical groupware suite, a single application for reading and sending e-mail and for managing calendars, address books, notes, to-do lists and memos. It is written for the GNOME graphical desktop.
... OPTIONS ... --force-shutdown Forcibly shut down all Evolution components. It feels the need to provide a built in command to kill itself. Need I say more? Nicholas Clark