Re: [bug-mailutils] movemail 3.1, hanging again

[Jean Louis]

On Thu, Dec 15, 2016 at 09:09:16AM +0200, Sergey Poznyakoff wrote:
> Hi Jean,
> 
> > movemail: S: * 40 FETCH (FLAGS (\Seen \Recent))
> > movemail: S: 84 OK FETCH completed.
> > movemail: number of processed messages: 40
> > movemail: number of errors: 0 / 0
> > 
> > ########### HERE IS WHERE IT HANGS FOR MINUTES ################
> 
> That solves it.  It did not hang at all.  It busy incorporating changes
> to your destination mailbox.  There can be many reasons why it took so
> long: slow disk access, huge mbox maildrop, disk problems, etc, etc.
> 
> Next time it occurs, flip to another console and check the status of the
> running movemail with ps(1) or top(1).  That will give more insight.


Here is again the new report, and maybe you should still see why it is
taking long. The 16 emails to be deleted, in this case of today,
required maybe 5 minutes, I mean I could prepare the tea, crush the
ginger, mix with sugar, put some mustard on the bread and hot dog, and
it still was not finished. Then I started eating breakfast, I was
watching with the ps the movemail, and I could not see any changes in
the command line, to get more insight.

Now, I am using other software to access my IMAP server, and no
software required more than 5 minutes to delete messages. So it is not
the IMAP server for sure that could be slow.

Also I am daily using my maildirs with other software, and my computer
is pretty fast, so I don't believe it is my hard disk or CPU, delaying
it.

And if delaying, like that long, than the debug output should say WHY
is it delaying, otherwise it is impossible to debug it, right?

It is really not usable if it delays for 5 minutes.

movemail: S: )
movemail: S: 36 OK FETCH completed.
movemail: number of processed messages: 16
movemail: number of errors: 0 / 0

########### HERE IS WHERE IT HANGS FOR MINUTES ################

movemail: C: 37 STORE 15 FLAGS.SILENT (\Deleted)
movemail: S: 37 OK STORE completed.
movemail: C: 38 STORE 5,11,16 FLAGS.SILENT (\Deleted \Seen)
movemail: S: 38 OK STORE completed.
movemail: C: 39 EXPUNGE
movemail: S: * 1 EXPUNGE
movemail: ignoring unrecognized response
movemail: S: * 1 EXPUNGE
movemail: ignoring unrecognized response
movemail: S: * 1 EXPUNGE
movemail: ignoring unrecognized response
movemail: S: * 1 EXPUNGE
movemail: ignoring unrecognized response