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Sending even a simple email sometimes takes a LONG time (half a minute) - is there a transaction log which might show why/where/how it was held up?

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I send all emails to a local VPOP3 server, and it may well be that the fault lies there. But a log on the client would allow me to know where to start looking.

I have noticed that if I abort sending, TB agrees to stop and says it hasn't sent the message. But often it seems that it has, so that might indicate that the delay is at the sign-off stage.

It won't delay to order, it's completely random. 70% go immediately, 20% take a second or two, 10% take between about 5 and 50 seconds.

Popcorn (an email client) doesn't suffer from delays, AND it has a live log so you can see the discussion with the server going on. That's what I'd like.

I send all emails to a local VPOP3 server, and it may well be that the fault lies there. But a log on the client would allow me to know where to start looking. I have noticed that if I abort sending, TB agrees to stop and says it hasn't sent the message. But often it seems that it has, so that might indicate that the delay is at the sign-off stage. It won't delay to order, it's completely random. 70% go immediately, 20% take a second or two, 10% take between about 5 and 50 seconds. Popcorn (an email client) doesn't suffer from delays, AND it has a live log so you can see the discussion with the server going on. That's what I'd like.

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Matt
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https://wiki.mozilla.org/MailNews:Logging#Windows

Note that the information applies to V55 onward.

pellefsen
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Logging doesn't work for me. I'm using the latest stable release (52.8.0). The file is created but nothing is written to it - yes, I've looked after closing T'bird and checked all the other gotchas.