Re: ot: how to t/s TBird problems ?
I recently upgraded my Thunderbird email client and have experienced problems since. It appears that when Tbird polls for new messages it gets held up waiting for a response from the server I'm using POP port 995. Any ideas as to why I'm having a problem ?
how to investigate such issue ?
I suspect you'll need to do session logging e.g.
protocol pop3 {
...
rawlog_dir = /writable/logdir/%u
}then
mkdir /writable/logdir/user
chmod 0777 /writable/logdir/userto obtain session transcripts of what server/client are doing.
I don't see any obvious errors from the logs that indicate any failure. I do see the INBOX is rather large so maybe a timeout is involved.
Joseph Tam jtam.home@gmail.com
thank you for all replies.
On Thu, October 13, 2022 9:22 am, Joseph Tam wrote:
to obtain session transcripts of what server/client are doing.
I don't see any obvious errors from the logs that indicate any failure. I do see the INBOX is rather large so maybe a timeout is involved.
Joseph, yes, it has around 114437 emails
# ls |wc 114437 114437 6800828
I've enabled logging as per your suggestion:
-rw------- 1 vmail vmail 127 Oct 16 21:38 20221016-213738.25640.1.in -rw------- 1 vmail vmail 8546603 Oct 16 21:38 20221016-213738.25640.1.out -rw------- 1 vmail vmail 96 Oct 16 21:58 20221016-215757.26075.1.in -rw------- 1 vmail vmail 8343463 Oct 16 21:58 20221016-215757.26075.1.out
# cat 20221016-213738.25640.1.in 1665916659.491025 STAT 1665916659.550829 LIST 1665916676.430794 UIDL 1665916693.761281 RETR 114437 1665916694.440965 QUIT # cat 20221016-215757.26075.1.in 1665917878.786953 STAT 1665917878.863136 LIST 1665917905.610805 UIDL 1665917924.491198 QUIT #
what should I look in the .out file ?
some of the file is like:
.... 1665916661.234807 114436 70097 1665916661.234814 114437 154498 1665916661.234821 . 1665916676.430870 +OK 1665916676.981415 1 000024b95283283a 1665916676.981459 2 000024ba5283283a ....
1665916679.434297 114436 00033fcf5283283a 1665916679.434327 114437 00033fd05283283a 1665916679.434349 . 1665916694.048139 +OK 154498 octets 1665916694.048199 Return-Path: buyer-notice14.g@mail.aliexpress.com ....
on an uneducated guess, the mailbox is just 'too large' ? POP has difficulty handling so many files ?
On Thu, October 13, 2022 5:44 am, Brendan Braybrook wrote:
maybe send the protocol debug out of thunderbird to the list too? (that'd show exactly what pop3 command thunderbird was hanging on).
Brendan,
thanks, I'll try the server logging first, as I can do it myself
On Thu, October 13, 2022 10:23 am, Jim Popovitch wrote:
On Fri, 1665532449-12-31 at 00:00 +0000, Voytek Eymont wrote:
Date: 1665532450
Why is your "Date:" header set to 1665532450?
Jim,
I think it's an issue with SquirrelMail, I think I've seen it before, sometimes...?
Voytek
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