ot: how to t/s TBird problems ?

[Aki Tuomi]

Hi!

This is very unlikely to be a dovecot issue itself. There is nothing inside dovecot that would horde your emails for 2 hours before "delivering" them.

You should 

 - Enable mail_log plugin. This will tell you when mails are delivered, when deleted etc, see https://doc.dovecot.org/configuration_manual/plugins/mail_event_logging/
 - Examine your logs
 - Check `doveadm fetch 'date.received date.sent date.saved' mailbox INBOX '*'` ( this will print you the last email in INBOX, note the quotes)

Aki

> On 23/10/2022 16:49 EEST Chris Wensink <cwensink at five-star-plastics.com> wrote:
> 
>  
> Over the last several months we have seen what seems like large delays in email delivery as well,  we get emails at 11AM that are time stamped at 9:10.  I thought it was a networking issue, but I can’t be sure.  I wish I knew more about coding, to look under the hood to examine things further.
> 
> Sent from my iPhone
> 
> > On Oct 23, 2022, at 7:17 AM, Voytek Eymont <voytek at sbt.net.au> wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > 
> >> On Sat, October 22, 2022 11:29 am, Joseph Tam wrote:
> >> 
> >> I haven't seen anyone else replying, but there doesn't seem anything
> >> anomalous with the output.  The session commands-repliesd is is more or
> >> less what I expect, although to make sense of this, you'll have to splice
> >> the input and output files together using timestamps to see the sequential
> >> flow of data.
> > ...
> >> Typically, if some resource limit is hit, one side or the other will
> >> create a log or notification.  Your INBOX is large, but not outrageous. You
> >> can test it directly by creating smaller subsets of the INBOX messages and
> >> see if the problem goes away.
> > 
> > Joseph,
> > 
> > thank you very much for the follow up!
> > you won't believe it, literally minutes before your email I got this email
> > from the 'problem user' (below)
> > 
> > thank you to all who responded!
> > 
> > - I guess if TB debug log was enabled (as was suggested)- maybe the issue
> > would become apparent from TB debug log ?
> > 
> > - I guess i should encourage POP users to switch to IMAP anyhow ?
> > 
> > got this from problem user:
> > ---------------
> > Mozilla Thunderbird released an update which I just installed.
> > 
> > Problem solved.
> > 
> > I guess Tbird had a problem that the new release addressed.
> > 
> > I'm sorry for the inconvenience.
> > 
> > I'm mystified why my issue was only with one account. Perhaps it was
> > something to do with the size of the database.
> > 
> > ---------------
> > yesterday it was
> > ---------------
> > I'm still experiencing a 40 second delay to retrieve emails for
> > xxx
> > 
> > I have changed the pop port to 110 for the server but that did not
> > work at all.
> > 
> > I have reinstalled my email client TBird but no change, anyway all the
> > other accounts on TBird are working ok but they are MAPI not POP.
> > 
> > 
> > Voytek
> >