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Re: [trinity-users] Re: Re: Re: kmail weirdness

From: dep <dep@...>
Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2019 00:46:48 +0000
On Thursday, January 17, 2019 2:59 PM, deloptes <deloptes@...> 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". 


> > 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. 


> 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. 


> 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.

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.

dep
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