Re: recurrence of old problem with inordinate delays fetching mail
- From: Peter Bloomfield <PeterBloomfield bellsouth net>
- To: balsa-list gnome org
- Cc:
- Subject: Re: recurrence of old problem with inordinate delays fetching mail
- Date: Thu, 27 May 2021 17:53:17 -0400
Hi Jack!
On 05/25/2021 10:57:31 AM Tue, Jack via balsa-list wrote:
Hello all,
I've just returned from a three weeks vacation. While away, I only used imap for all email access. I'm now
trying to POP3 download all my email. All mail servers have gone fine except for gmail. There are a bit
over 200 messages, and after somewhere around half of them were downloaded, it started taking over twenty
seconds for each additional message. Based on watching top and on previous experience, I believe the problem
is that Balsa applies inbox filters after each new message is downloaded, and this calls html2text on every
message in the mailbox, but now I have over 150 messages in my mbox inbox. In the short term, can anyone
suggest a way to find which one is likely causing problems? In the long run, would it make sense not to
apply filters to a mailbox until all pending actions are done - specifically fetching a whole bunch of POP3
messages?
I've also tried deleting a few messages at a time from the INBOX, but it just hung, presumably having
problems rewriting the mbox file. I might try deleting all the remaining new messages from the INBOX and
then copying one at a time from the IMAP inbox.
I have a vague recollection that in the past, the problem was caused by some HTML only message with invalid
HTML that all browsers and other email clients (TBird) handle fine.
(Hopefully I'll be able to find any answers to this by using IMAP for the interim.)
Thanks for any suggestions.
Jack
The long-run fix could get complicated. I've opened an issue [1] where we can discuss strategies for avoiding
these kinds of delays.
In the short run, if the delays are indeed caused by on-reception filtering, you could perhaps just
temporarily disable the filters.
Best,
Peter
[1] https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/balsa/-/issues/58
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