Started out as a Thunderbird 16.0.1 problem where sending would succeed but copy to "Sent" spun wheels forever. This is a frequent issue on the bug and help forums for Tbird, and I've tried lots of the suggested remedies. However, I note now that 1) it doesn't seem to happen on gmail (also IMAP) 2) on uOttawa it sometimes "works" fine, then locks up when copying msgs from one folder to another. This on 2 different machines, both AMD64. One runs Linux Mint 13 Mate Maya, the other Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS. For about 10 hours I thought it was the age of OS, but now Maya is locking too. 3) On both I tried Evolution and got nowhere. Claws on Mint also failed. This is for uottawa. I even installed Tbird on Win7 on one machine and got similar behaviour, though I must admit to not persisting very long. I have tried checking with uO support that I have right settings. They said Yes to IMAP on mailbox.uottawa.ca:993 with SSL/TLS and normal pw. But I then noticed that this was settings for Ubuntu 10.04; the semi-auto setup on Mint had set ...:143 and STARTTLS. Weird. To get to the bottom of this, I think I need to have some tool that will sniff the connection and see where things get stuck. My suspicion is that uO has something set up so the timing of handshaking gets out of whack and some step is missed. Moreover, I think I'll be farther ahead to figure out the issue before I make a lot of noise with uOttawa. Also it could be some sort of glitch or mis-setting in my system. Either way, it would be good to sort out. Work arounds are not a good answer here, as there are many nice features in Tbird that can save me a lot of sweaty effort. Cheers, JN > I missed the previous thread. What are the details? > On 23 Oct 2012 17:49, <nashjc [ at ] uottawa [ dot ] ca> wrote: > >> Further to queries about email a couple of weeks ago, I'm now fairly >> convinced that the uOttawa mail server has some sort of protocol glitch. >> I >> can regularly, though not every time, get lock-up when I try to copy or >> move a file between folders on Thunderbird, and Evolution and Claws >> won't >> seem to work at all with this server. I have no issues with gmail >> servers. >> >> I'm wondering if someone has skills at logging the protocol details when >> the mailboxes are opened etc. to see if I can get more information. The >> Help Desk is, of course, squawking about "unsupported" software. I'll >> happily provide pizza and wine if someone cares to give a hand in >> diagnosing what is going on. >> >> I don't even mind being embarrassed if it turns out that I've missed >> some >> important setting. It would be good to know what the issue it. >> >> Cheers, JN >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Linux mailing list >> Linux [ at ] lists [ dot ] oclug [ dot ] on [ dot ] ca >> http://oclug.on.ca/mailman/listinfo/linux >> >