[Users] Fedora 25 upgrade renders Claws Mail unusable

[edwardp at linuxmail.org]

On Thu, 24 Nov 2016 11:10:31 -0500
<edwardp at linuxmail.org> wrote:

> On Thu, 24 Nov 2016 17:03:19 +0100
> wwp <subscript at free.fr> wrote:
> 
> > Hello Edward,
> > 
> > 
> > On Thu, 24 Nov 2016 10:51:48 -0500 edwardp at linuxmail.org wrote:
> >   
> > > On 11/24/2016 10:42 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote:    
> > > > On Thu, 24 Nov 2016 10:34:06 -0500, edwardp at linuxmail.org
> > > > wrote:      
> > > >> Changing protocol=0 to protocol=1 in accountrc, did not fix
> > > >> this, they still come up as POP3 and can't be changed.
> > > >>
> > > >> Wonderful.      
> > > > You need to mention from what version you downgraded to 3.13.2-1
> > > > or upgraded to 3.14. If I shouldn't have missed an email, then
> > > > you didn't mention what version you used and what version you
> > > > installed and run after that.
> > > >
> > > > Regards,
> > > > Ralf
> > > >
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> > > > http://lists.claws-mail.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/users      
> > > 
> > > The original version under Fedora 24 was 3.13.2, the Fedora
> > > upgrade process should have upgraded this to 3.14, but it
> > > "downgraded" it back to 3.13.2. Why it did this, I do not know. I
> > > have filed a bug report on this over at Red Hat, including a
> > > reference to bug 3733 on Claws Mail Bugzilla.    
> > 
> > Erm.. something I don't get: if your config files were from
> > 3.13.2-1, and after system upgrade, you were running 3.13.2-1,
> > isn't that the exact same version? Meaning, okay you didn't get the
> > expected 3.14 one, but this shouldn't have broken your config
> > anyway?
> > 
> > 
> > Regards,  
> 
> Technically, yes. Same version, so nothing should have changed, except
> the package has fc25 in the filename rather than fc24. 
> 
> The "downgrade" also deleted all of the account passwords, so I had to
> add those back in...
> 
> Changing the protocol entry to 3, worked. The accounts are now back to
> IMAP.

There is obviously something wrong with this. The Stop icon at the top
of the screen, also activates (blinks on and off.

When this happens, the Network log shows:

[11:12:34] IMAP4> 25 NOOP 
[11:12:35] IMAP4< 25 OK NOOP completed 
[11:12:35] IMAP4> 24 NOOP 
[11:12:35] IMAP4< 24 OK NOOP completed 
[11:12:35] IMAP4> 25 NOOP 
[11:12:35] IMAP4< 25 OK NOOP completed 
[11:12:35] IMAP4> 23 NOOP 
[11:12:35] IMAP4< 23 OK NOOP completed 
[11:12:36] IMAP4> 24 NOOP 
[11:12:36] IMAP4< 24 OK NOOP completed