(Chose 'Other' since I'm unsure what component is causing me trouble). Sometimes when receiving when Claws-Mail I experience CPU spikes. Occasionally the program complete freezes, others I'm able to stop it while trying to navigate the GUI. While I haven't been able to discern a definite pattern I'm suspect it has something to do with this: "file-utils.c:58:TIMING safe_fclose : 0s033ms file-utils.c:133:/usr/bin/shred /home/mrtea/.claws-mail/tmp/claws-crashed exited with status 0 file-utils.c:133:/usr/bin/shred /home/mrtea/.claws-mail/tmp/tmpfile.00000005 exited with status 0 file-utils.c:133:/usr/bin/shred /home/mrtea/.claws-mail/mimetmp/00000001.245601_721685.pdf exited with status 0 file-utils.c:133:/usr/bin/shred /home/mrtea/.claws-mail/mimetmp/0000000a.mimetmp.html exited with status 0 file-utils.c:133:/usr/bin/shred /home/mrtea/.claws-mail/mimetmp/00000009.mimetmp.html exited with status 0 file-utils.c:133:/usr/bin/shred /home/mrtea/.claws-mail/mimetmp/00000002.245601_721685.pdf exited with status 0" This might be complete out of left field, but I can't get the Dillo plugin to work. Since I can't I just open HTML-messages I just open these in Dillo externally. While I can't say that it has happened every time, it seems like to happen more often when I'm using Dillo while receiving e-mail. I'm on Debian (Stretch) and this seem to have started happening while upgrading from a previous Claws version. Might have to do with Debian, so I'll provide more info it proves to be strictly Claws related. // J.
Turn off 'Use secure file deletion if possible' (/Configuration/Preferences/Other/Miscellaneous), and see if that stops the cpu spike.
The thought has crossed my mind to do that. Seeing as my e-mail habits have stayed the same, and I've had it turned on for 3-4 years, it really seems odd that I've never experienced this before. That's why I felt that it might be relevant for the developers to know this. Could be something strictly on my end, but I wanted to mention it at least. "If it's happening to me it'll probably happen to others."
Update: Having had 'Use secure file deletion if possible' off since the reply I can't say that it made any difference. I'm pretty sure I can rule out the Dillo connection too. Sometimes trying to interact with Claws while frozen causes it to unfreeze on a semi-regular basis. Other times I have to resort to kill the process flat out. Tried to overhaul processing rules and stuff like that to no avail.
A couple things to check: Do you have the filtering log enabled? Do you use the Notification plugin (with libnotify)?
I use the filtering log. Mainly because I've had some troubles in the past. I wan't to catch these if anything goes wrong. Sometimes it declares an error during processing. Most of the time that isn't an issue though. 1/10:th of the time of late would be a generous estimate. And no, I do not. I rely on a small script to notify me about unread mail. Worth to mention that Claws-Mail doesn't start or execute it.