[Users] Blocked Access

[Bret Busby]

On 3/9/22 03:47, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> Hi,
> since a very long time ago Claws with several POP accounts and trillions
> (maybe a few less ;) of mails became slower and slower on my machine.
> 
> In the end it even affected performance of other apps and only when
> using Claws, the disk often was remounted read only, it happened more or
> less each time when using Claws.
> 
> It appeared to be a hardware error, but it isn't. Three weeks ago I
> stopped using Claws, the performance of my machine is fast again and the
> disk never was remounted read only again, while running 24/7.
> 
> It probably isn't that dramatically in your case.
> 
>>> Access to the file was denied
>>>
>>> The file at /home/dan/.claws-mail/mimetmp/00000020.mimetmp.html is
>>> not readable.
>>>
>>>       It may have been removed, moved, or file permissions may be
>>>       preventing access.
> 
> A starting point is to list this file.
> 
> ls -hl /home/dan/.claws-mail/mimetmp/00000020.mimetmp.html
> 
> Does it exist? If so, is read access granted?
> 
> FWIW I experienced performance issues already a long, long time ago, but
> this is the version that does cause the remount issue:
> 
> [rocketmouse at archlinux ~]$ grep claws /var/log/pacman.log | tail -1
> [2022-06-15T23:10:14+0200] [ALPM] upgraded claws-mail (4.1.0-1 -> 4.1.0-2)
> 
> OTOH I was running the same versions of Claws on Ubuntu 16.04 and Arch
> Linux, while several way older versions already were a PITA on Arch
> Linux, those versions were running without any issue on Ubuntu 16.04.
> 
> [root at archlinux rocketmouse]# systemd-nspawn -qD /mnt/moonstudio dpkg -l claws-mail-git
> Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
> | Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
> |/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
> ||/ Name                                      Version                   Architecture              Description
> +++-=========================================-=========================-=========================-========================================================================================
> ii  claws-mail-git                            3.17.8-1                  amd64                     A GTK+ based e-mail client - git checkout
> 
> So 3.17.8 and probably older versions did work without an issue on
> Ubuntu 16.04, but suffered already from performance issues on Arch
> Linux, while build with the same flags, but not with the same versions
> of dependencies. For other users the same versions worked on Arch Linux
> without issue. IMO debugging this single threaded MUA is not worth the
> hustle. Claws is nice as long as it works without issues. If it stops
> working, it's a pity, but maybe time to drop it.
> 
> Regards,
> Ralf

Okay.

I use claws-mail on an email account where I get maybe one or two, 
maybe, even up to four, email messages in a week.

For my primary email account, in which, I now get only about 100-150 
emails a day, I use Thunderbird to view and deal with email that needs 
quick response, and, for downloading, and, the heavy work, I use the 
heavy duty email application; alpine (previously known as pine). That 
involves about 20-25GB of stored messages, hundreds of filters, some 
with hundreds of filter values, and about 13,000 folders, mostly archive 
folders, with messages going back about twenty years, for a number of 
email accounts, redirected into my primary account. So, I use the heavy 
duty email application, for dealing with that.

..
Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia
(UTC+0800)
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