On Sun, 7 Mar 2021 12:18:32 +0000 Bev Nicolson lumos@gmx.co.uk allegedly wrote:
Claws and Evolution are both slow. (They've only got one mailbox to check.)
Found these two in the Claws log.
IMAP< 20 NO Mailbox doesn't exist: Queue (0.001 + 0.000 secs). ** IMAP error on ********************* STATUS error
[where ***** = name of ISP server)
Bev
I don't /think/ that error is relevant. It will only come after you have successfully logged in and authenticated to the IMAP server. That message comes from you attemptimg to connect to a non-existent mailbox (say "Trash" or a subfolder of "INBOX") which for some reason is not there.
None of the tests show the lag between opening up and the connection being made, though. It was odd testing it using Dovecot in Terminal as nothing seemed to be happening for a while. I just had to wait for it to throw some text up when it was ready to.
I assume here that you mean "testing it using openssl in Terminal" and not "Dovecot". Dovecot is the server end.
Is there anything else on the ISP server that you can trial a connection to? Say FTP? or or even a plain text server such as HTTP? If there is, then try connecting to that service and see if there is a similar lag. That will eliminate a general network lag problem and point solely to the IMP server. Are you aware of any other users having the same problem (Most ISPs have a "community blog" page somewhere where customers post queries/comments/complaints.)
Mick
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