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Re: Error downloading message from imap server
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From: Dan Fandrich via curl-users <curl-users_at_lists.haxx.se>
Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2023 15:20:19 -0700
On Mon, Sep 25, 2023 at 09:17:37AM +0200, Luis Muñoz Fuente via curl-users wrote:
> El 24/9/23 a las 22:37, Dan Fandrich via curl-users escribió:
> > What curl version?
> $curl -V
>
> curl 7.68.0 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) libcurl/7.68.0 OpenSSL/1.1.1f zlib/1.2.11
> brotli/1.0.7 libidn2/2.2.0 libpsl/0.21.0 (+libidn2/2.2.0)
> libssh/0.9.3/openssl/zlib nghttp2/1.40.0 librtmp/2.3
> Release-Date: 2020-01-08
That version is 35 releases old, although I think it's much more likely to be a
server issue than a curl issue.
> > Are you sure it's not the remote server throttling you
> > because of too many requests in a short time? ISPs used to restrict the number
> > of polls for mail you were allowed to do in a short time; I don't know if they
> > still do but it's quite likely. I'd expect to see a different error message in
> > that case, though.
>
> But it always lets me check the number of messages...
That doesn't rule out server throttling. It's quite likely to be much more
expensive to return messages than a count of available messages.
Try using the --trace-ascii option to see if the server is giving any more
clues as to what is happening.
Dan
Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2023 15:20:19 -0700
On Mon, Sep 25, 2023 at 09:17:37AM +0200, Luis Muñoz Fuente via curl-users wrote:
> El 24/9/23 a las 22:37, Dan Fandrich via curl-users escribió:
> > What curl version?
> $curl -V
>
> curl 7.68.0 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) libcurl/7.68.0 OpenSSL/1.1.1f zlib/1.2.11
> brotli/1.0.7 libidn2/2.2.0 libpsl/0.21.0 (+libidn2/2.2.0)
> libssh/0.9.3/openssl/zlib nghttp2/1.40.0 librtmp/2.3
> Release-Date: 2020-01-08
That version is 35 releases old, although I think it's much more likely to be a
server issue than a curl issue.
> > Are you sure it's not the remote server throttling you
> > because of too many requests in a short time? ISPs used to restrict the number
> > of polls for mail you were allowed to do in a short time; I don't know if they
> > still do but it's quite likely. I'd expect to see a different error message in
> > that case, though.
>
> But it always lets me check the number of messages...
That doesn't rule out server throttling. It's quite likely to be much more
expensive to return messages than a count of available messages.
Try using the --trace-ascii option to see if the server is giving any more
clues as to what is happening.
Dan
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