How to record traffic between Evolution and POP Server

[Lai Zit Seng]

Jonathan Ryshpan wrote:
> I'm having weird problems between my Evolution email client and my ISP's
> POP server.  Evolution says it can't receive a particular message; the
> problem is:
>         Cannot get message ALwwvs4AAB//RP55HQdLMjcw/zI: Input/output
>         error
> always with the same message ID.  The ISP (ATT) says there's nothing in
> my inbox on the POP server.  I'd like to get some more info on what's
> going on.
> 
> How can I get Evolution to record its interactions with the POP server.
> Is there some environment variable or invocation option that will get
> Evolution to do this?

Well, if you want to sniff the network traffic, you could always try 
running tcpdump or ethereal. Works pretty well for debugging most 
network protocol anomalies... provided the traffic is not SSL encrypted. 
Ethereal is probably easier to use, because you can have it reconstruct 
the TCP session into a nice view showing who sent what.

Regards,

.lzs
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