Re: Re: Re: Re: kmail weirdness

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dep wrote:

> On Thursday, January 17, 2019 2:59 PM, deloptes
> <deloptes@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
>  
> 
>> ~/.trinity/Autostart/
>> 
> 
>> or the files sourced
> 
> All I found in that directory was a file, .directory, which listes many
> translations of the word "Autostart".
> 

ok so it is not autostarted by entry there - I don't remember where TDE is
writing which apps were running when it stopped, so that it starts them
next time .... there should be something in ~/.trinity

> 
>> > at this point i'm not sure whether it is kmail or protonmail bridge
>> > that's causing the problem. the error thrown: "The connection to the
>> > server DrippingWithIrony was unexpectedly closed or timed out. It will
>> > be re-established automatically if possible." I am not certain that it
>> > ever gets established.
>> 
> 
>> sometimes strace helps in such cases
> 
> I have no idea what the results are supposed to look like, so I have no
> idea whether it's showing anything anomalous. Perhaps you would be able to
> read it, but I can make no sense of it.
> 
> 
>> > the issue is this: the only linux mail client officially supported by
>> > protonmail bridge is thunderbird, which i'd use if it supported
>> > maildir, but it doesn't and i see no reason to think it ever will.
>> > configuring protonmail bridge is actually fairly straightforward --
>> > both incoming and outgoing use 127.0.0.1. imap is port 1143; smtp is
>> > 1025. there is an elaborate password, which i get from protonmail
>> > bridge itself.
>> 
> 
>> don't know - you should be able to check those even with telnet
> 
> Not sure how I'd do that, but a check of the ports tells me that the
> bridge is listening:
> 
> Desktop-Bridge 4392  dep   11u  IPv4  34290      0t0  TCP 127.0.0.1:1143
> (LISTEN)
> Desktop-Bridge 4392  dep   12u  IPv4  33466      0t0  TCP 127.0.0.1:1025
> (LISTEN)
> 
> Which I imagine is expected behavior. Nor are there failure to login
> errors from kmail.
> 

telnet 127.0.0.1 1143
telnet 127.0.0.1 1025


> 
>> no one argues against. I just asked because I recall you were writing
>> about it, so it looks like kmail is not able to authenticate against your
>> local protonmail instance.
> 
> Right. I can view mail through the webmail version of Protonmail -- that's
> how I'm writing this -- but after months of being able, with reasonable
> success, to use ProtonMail bridge I now can't, and I can't figure out any
> diagnostics for determining what got broken.
> 

does the bridge have some debugging option?

> 
>> what happens if you check in the settings of the account for example
>> security or something - could be ssl certificate expired or who knows
>> what.
> 
> If there were a certificate problem, wouldn't kmail throw an error? There
> are no security settings as such with Protonmail Bridge, and the settings
> in kmail appear to be correct.
> 

yes indeed - it looks like that while it is trying to do something the
connection breaks and you get the error

> What I need to find out is if kmail is actually communicating with
> Protonmail Bridge. If it is, then I need to find out if Protonmail Bridge
> is communicating with the server in Switzerland. And I have no idea how to
> do either of those things.
> 

Meet your best friend Wireshark ;-)

you can try also tdedebugdialog 5006 kmail and perhaps also tdeio and
generic, but I am not sure if what you are using has debug, or you can
install it - I think someone mentioned it is not compiled

regards


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