Occasional hangs - maybe actually old problem: Was: Several minor issues

[Jack <ostroffjh users sourceforge net>]

Mainly just FYI at this point, unless anyone else has any more concrete  
ideas than I do.

On 2018.08.28 15:13, Albrecht Dreß wrote:
> Hi Jack:
>
> Am 28.08.18 20:57 schrieb(en) Jack via balsa-list:
[snip other issues...]
> > 3) For the past several weeks, I have been noticing an occasional,  
> > unpredictable hang/pause in Balsa when downloading messages.  […]   
> > I'm looking for any thoughts on how to troubleshoot this better.
> You might want to run Balsa with all debug messages  
> (G_MESSAGES_DEBUG=all) or only low-level networking messages  
> (G_MESSAGES_DEBUG=libnetclient) enabled and check if anything unusual  
> happens with the problematic mailbox.  Remember that passwords will  
> be printed in the output, so please sanitise any files before posting  
> them.
I've done this, but seen no messages that would indicate any particular  
problem.  However, the hangs mostly seem to be after Balsa finished  
downloading a message (often the last downloaded line in the DEBUG is a  
'.')  so I'm now wondering if the hang might be caused by checking gpg  
signatures - and like magic, I have had this issue in the past, and  
there was a thread in February about it.  You provided some notes on  
checking gpg configuration, which I'll have to read and follow up on  
again.  I have 504 "pub" keys (from "gpg -k") and I wouldn't consider  
that a particularly large keyring - or am I wrong?  (Browsing through  
the list of keys, I suspect most got there by due to messages from  
various mailing lists.)

However, two more questions:  First, as I said in February, why would  
this check (or whatever is currently happening) completely block all  
Balsa activity?  Second, in my Inbox, I do have "Decrypt and check  
signatures automatically" set to "Never" so it's obviously not exactly  
the same problem I was having back them.

Anyway - I've updated several bits of my gpg configuration, and I know  
I've got lots to go, but even if I'm imagining it, I seem to be having  
less of the hangs, but not totally gone yet.

Jack