How to start an app by a terminal and to keep it running, when closing the terminal?

Wed May 21 00:47:49 UTC 2014

On 5/21/14, Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mardorf at alice-dsl.net> wrote:
> regarding to issues with Evolution, I want to be able to launch
> "evolution --force-shutdown" in a terminal emulation by the JWM menu.
> This does work without a problem.

What is '--force-shutdown' option? I don't have evolution installed,
and don't want to install it just to check an option.