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:
>> 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
>>
> At least the error-message is genuine.
> I'm about to head "off the reservation" for just over two weeks and will
> not be frequenting this newsgroup during that period. Only a developer
> could help now anyway, if you want to take things fu
