Don Spam's Reckless Son wrote: > David H. Durgee wrote: >> Don Spam's Reckless Son wrote: >>> David H. Durgee wrote: >>>> On occasion I am encountering cases where my email becomes >>>> "constipated" >>>> here with SM 2.49.4 on linux mint 18.3 x64. This happens after SM is >>>> running for a while. When the problem occurs I notice that I am seeing >>>> no new email downloaded for an unusual period of time. At that >>>> point if >>>> I go and and request a download of new messages I will get some strange >>>> message about UIDL and other things not being supported on the mail >>>> server. >>>> >>>> I attempted to clear this by closing the news/mail window and then >>>> re-opening it, but that accomplishes nothing. Closing SM entirely and >>>> restarting it corrects this problem and I then get a download of all >>>> messages that were waiting on the mail servers. >>>> >>>> Is anyone else seeing this? Is this a known bug? Are there any >>>> actions >>>> I can take to avoid this problem? If it is a know problem, when >>>> will it >>>> be fixed? >>>> >>>> Dave >>>> >>> >>> I'd never even heard of UIDL but >>> http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?f=39&t=2446961 and another >>> link from 1996 told me a bit more. >>> A question: How many mails have you already received in the session >>> before this happens? >> >> Don't know or keep track. I have six different email accounts >> monitored, some POP3 and some IMAP here. It is usually several days >> after I restart SM and occurs infrequently. I normally only restart SM >> when the memory leaks use so much excess memory that it makes sense to >> do so. >> >>> https://www.emailarchitect.net/eagetmail/sdk/html/object_uidl.htm is for >>> people writing mail clients but it helped my understanding of the issue. >>> I just ignored the programming stuff. >> >> From the error message I get it appears that this is part of what is >> required to leave messages on the server and keep the server messages in >> sync with your local inbox with deletions. >> >> Don't know if this provides any additional useful information. >> >> Dave >> > > This is way outside my "zone". My PC runs when I am at home and awake - > or not even then - which is probably typical usage, the number of email > accounts does match though. > The big question is: Is this behaviour inherited from Thunderbird or is > it peculiar to Seamonkey. Without bothering about pesky things like > evidence, I'll go for Thunderbird. > I suppose you could raise a bug report against Seamonkey, it would then > presumably be reassigned to TB. > When your mail client goes autistic, does that only affect the pop3 > accounts or does it affect the imap ones as well?
I haven't noted and will have to test that the next time it occurs. As I noted it is infrequent, so that may be a while. From the lack of other responses to this thread I am guessing this is not a common problem. Dave _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
