Don Spam's Reckless Son wrote: > David H. Durgee wrote: >> 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? >>> >>> >> >> Well, I just hit the problem this morning. The exact popup I got was: >> >> The POP3 mail server (pop.verizon.net) does not support UIDL or XTND >> XLST, which are required to implement the ``Leave on Server'', ``Maximum >> Message Size'' or ``Fetch Headers Only'' options. To download your mail, >> turn off these options in the Server Settings for your mail server in >> the Account Settings window. >> >> Interestingly, it is only happening to ONE POP3 account. All other >> accounts work normally, both POP3 and IMAP accounts. >> >> In terms of how long it has been running: >> >> hdurgee@Z560 ~ $ ps -ef | grep seamo >> dhdurgee 29758 2260 18 Dec12 ? 21:02:07 seamonkey >> dhdurgee 30205 4366 0 09:03 pts/1 00:00:00 grep --color=auto seamo >> dhdurgee@Z560 ~ $ >> >> I will now restart SM and it should go away. >> >> Dave >> > > Do you actually have one of the 'Leave on Server', 'Maximum Message > Size' or 'Fetch Headers Only' options set? > I make routine use of the first one - so that my mails arrive on my PC, > My Laptop and my Android Phone - but close down the PC and Laptop after > just a few hours so have never seen this error. > I do not have a clue if this is a Verizon problem although I rather > doubt it. You survive almost 4 days. > > Andrew >
I do have "Leave on Server" and "Until I delete them" checked. I do so so that I have the option to access them remotely when out of the office. Dave _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
