Bug#959443: geary: Geary takes "forever" to check for and download new email messages

[Matthias Brennwald]

Package: geary
Version: 3.36.1-1
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

Geary sometimes takes "forever" (many hours, days) to fetch new email messages.
I can see the "spinning wheel" at the bottom of the left pane. Restarting Geary
does not help.

Sometimes, fetching email just works fine (new messages appear within a minute
or so). I don't know how to trigger the issue.

I have different email accounts configured in Geary. As far as I can tell, the
issue is mostly with my main email account (conventional IMAP). The problem
does not happen with other email tools (Evolution on the same machine, Apple
Mail on a Mac, or different email tools on my Android mobile phone).



-- System Information:
Debian Release: bullseye/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 5.5.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US:en (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages geary depends on:
ii  dconf-gsettings-backend [gsettings-backend]  0.36.0-1
ii  gnome-keyring                                3.36.0-1
ii  libc6                                        2.30-4
ii  libcairo2                                    1.16.0-4
ii  libenchant-2-2                               2.2.8-1
ii  libfolks25                                   0.14.0-1
ii  libgck-1-0                                   3.36.0-2
ii  libgcr-base-3-1                              3.36.0-2
ii  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0                           2.40.0+dfsg-4
ii  libgee-0.8-2                                 0.20.3-1
ii  libglib2.0-0                                 2.64.2-1
ii  libgmime-3.0-0                               3.2.7-1
ii  libgoa-1.0-0b                                3.36.0-1
ii  libgspell-1-2                                1.8.3-1
ii  libgtk-3-0                                   3.24.18-1
ii  libhandy-0.0-0                               0.0.13-2
ii  libjavascriptcoregtk-4.0-18                  2.28.2-2
ii  libjson-glib-1.0-0                           1.4.4-2
ii  libpango-1.0-0                               1.44.7-4
ii  libpangocairo-1.0-0                          1.44.7-4
ii  libpeas-1.0-0                                1.26.0-2
ii  libsecret-1-0                                0.20.3-1
ii  libsoup2.4-1                                 2.70.0-1
ii  libsqlite3-0                                 3.31.1-5
ii  libunwind8                                   1.2.1-9
ii  libwebkit2gtk-4.0-37                         2.28.2-2
ii  libxml2                                      2.9.10+dfsg-5
ii  libytnef0                                    1.9.3-1+b1

geary recommends no packages.

geary suggests no packages.

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