Voytek Eymont writes:> I've enabled logging as per your suggestion: > > -rw------- 1 vmail vmail 127 Oct 16 21:38 20221016-213738.25640.1.in > -rw------- 1 vmail vmail 8546603 Oct 16 21:38 20221016-213738.25640.1.out > -rw------- 1 vmail vmail 96 Oct 16 21:58 20221016-215757.26075.1.in > -rw------- 1 vmail vmail 8343463 Oct 16 21:58 20221016-215757.26075.1.out > > # cat 20221016-213738.25640.1.in > 1665916659.491025 STAT > 1665916659.550829 LIST > 1665916676.430794 UIDL > 1665916693.761281 RETR 114437 > 1665916694.440965 QUIT > # cat 20221016-215757.26075.1.in > 1665917878.786953 STAT > 1665917878.863136 LIST > 1665917905.610805 UIDL > 1665917924.491198 QUIT > # > > what should I look in the .out file ? > > some of the file is like: > .... > 1665916661.234807 114436 70097 > 1665916661.234814 114437 154498 > 1665916661.234821 . > 1665916676.430870 +OK > 1665916676.981415 1 000024b95283283a > 1665916676.981459 2 000024ba5283283a > .... > > 1665916679.434297 114436 00033fcf5283283a > 1665916679.434327 114437 00033fd05283283a > 1665916679.434349 . > 1665916694.048139 +OK 154498 octets > 1665916694.048199 Return-Path: <buyer-notice14.g at mail.aliexpress.com> > ....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. I forget what the symptoms you originally reported, but theoretically, you could simulate either client or server by feeding in the above data and see how the other end behaves. If dovecot is serving out the correct data, then TB is somehow misinterpreting it.> on an uneducated guess, the mailbox is just 'too large' ? > POP has difficulty handling so many files ?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 Tam <jtam.home at gmail.com>
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