Bug 2430

Summary:

Slow accounts blocking interface

Product:

Claws Mail (GTK 2)

Reporter:

Bruno <bonbons67>

Component:

Folders/IMAP

Assignee:

users

Status:

NEW ---

Severity:

normal

Priority:

Version:

other

Hardware:

OS:

Linux

Attachments:

Description	Flags
Email receiving errors and workaround	none

Description Bruno 2011-05-18 19:21:39 UTC

When multiple accounts are configure for regular new-mail-check and one or more of them are unreachable (packets dropped or no route to host but without ICMP unreachable message) most operations (e.g. listing messages) in unrelated accounts are blocked until connection attempt to unreachable account's server times-out.

It would be best if slowness or other trouble on an account would not block/limit access to the other accounts. In the same sense, new-mail scanning should happen in parallel on all accounts instead of sequentially.

Comment 1 Ricardo Mones 2012-09-13 12:29:52 UTC

This is an enhancement request for parallel account retrieval, and, fortunately, has nothing to do with deadlocks. Please retitle and set importance accordingly.

Comment 2 Bruno 2012-09-19 20:57:24 UTC

Ricardo, I don't really agree that this is just enhancement, it's more severe than that when on account is just unreachable.

When scanning mailboxes at 10 minutes interval with one unreachable (as in connection timing out) account Claws-mail is near-unsable for half of the time!

Comment 3 Ricardo Mones 2012-09-19 22:30:47 UTC

Parallel retrieval it's not a Claws Mail feature, so, no matter how severe lacking it is in your personal environment or in any other, it's still an enhancement for Claws Mail.

Try to use fetchmail or a similar program which runs as a background task to download the mails from the unreliable connected machines to your local box. Then use Claws Mail to filter and read them locally. This way at least Claws Mail won't be blocked by network failures.

Comment 4 Marc Laporte 2023-07-02 05:19:50 UTC

Created attachment 2336 [details]
Email receiving errors and workaround

Comment 5 Marc Laporte 2023-07-02 05:22:28 UTC

Here is what what I am seeing: https://www.thewildbeast.co.uk/claws-mail/bugzilla/attachment.cgi?id=2336

And a workaround: Preferences -> Mail Handling -> Receiving -> Dialogs -> Don't popup error dialog on receive error

Comment 6 Marc Laporte 2023-07-02 05:23:48 UTC

Related:
https://www.thewildbeast.co.uk/claws-mail/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=2038
https://www.thewildbeast.co.uk/claws-mail/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=2198
https://www.thewildbeast.co.uk/claws-mail/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=3153