How to record traffic between Evolution and POP Server
Jonathan Ryshpan
jonrysh at pacbell.net
Sat Sep 9 00:34:22 UTC 2006
Jonathan Ryshpan <jonrysh at pacbell.net> 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?
On Wed, 2006-09-06 at 22:32 -0600, David G. Miller wrote:
> If ATT offers a web-mail interface, you might try that and see what, if
> anything, is in your inbox. This will allow you to determine whether
> the problem is on the ATT side or your side of the interface. If their
> web-mail has the same problem, their tech support should be more
> amenable to looking into it and, hopefully, fixing it. If nothing is
> there, the problem is on your end and Evolution apparently thinks that
> something is there and is attempting to fetch it anyway. Your "inbox"
> is just a text file so you *may* be able to just delete the invalid
> reference (use vi and do a search on the message ID).
>
> I'd be really surprised if this is a protocol issue and you need to
> sniff packets to debug the problem. One other approach to try is to use
> another local client such as Thunderbird or Mozilla Mail and see if a
> different local e-mail client has the same problem.
Jonathan Ryshpan writes:
ATT does offer a web-mail interface, which shows that I have no email
pending. Nevertheless, evolution shows repeatedly that it can't fetch
the message with ID ALwwvs4AAB//RP55HQdLMjcw/zI. I suspect that you are
right about Evolution trying to fetch a message that isn't there,
because clicking the configuration box "Disable support for all POP3
extensions" in Edit->Preferences->... makes the problem go away.
I would still like to look over the traffic, so I can figure out what's
going on and maybe do something about it. I vaguely remember some
environment variable that will cause Evolution to log its traffic with
the server, but no-one has been able to remind me what it is ... So it
looks like it's time to break out WireShark.
Thanks - jon
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