Jonathan Ryshpan <jonrysh@xxxxxxxxxxx> 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
