ot: how to t/s TBird problems ?

[Jan Hugo Prins]

Even more easy, start by examining the mail headers to see where the mail was blocked.

Jhp

On October 23, 2022 4:05:51 PM GMT+02:00, Aki Tuomi <aki.tuomi at open-xchange.com> wrote:
>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
>> >

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