How to record traffic between Evolution and POP Server

[David G. Miller]

Lai Zit Seng <lzs at pobox.com> wrote:

>Jonathan Ryshpan wrote:
>  
>
>>> 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.
>>    
>>
>
>Perhaps Evolution has stored some state information in your home
>directory and is confused. I would suggest to delete ~/.evolution (yes
>you would loose all your configuration and mail already downloaded... an
>alternative is to simply move away this directory somewhere else) and
>see if this helps.
>
>Regards,
>
>.lzs
>
Or:

cd ~/.evolution
find . -type f -exec grep ALwwvs4AAB {} \; -print

You can then attempt to edit the file that contains the reference to the 
message.

Cheers,
Dave

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