Same kind of problem - mail stuck in outbox and won’t send. It’s only with ISP “freeparking.co.nz” and its all fine with outlook.com. It started with K9 version 6.100 and continues with 6.200. A friend with a similar setup to mine had the same problem then K9 magically downgraded to 6.000 and it came right.
Question 1 - how do I get K9 to downgrade to 6.000
Question 2 - do you want more details to help debug the problem
Question 3 - how do I start a new topic on the forum instead of piggybacking on the previous discussion.
Thanks Nimeuh. I tried downgrading to version 6.000 of K9 on an older phone but unfortunately it didn’t help.
Here is a restatement of the problem with more details.
The problem started about the time K9 was upgraded to 6.1000.
I cannot send mail when I use my ISP “Freeparking.co.nz”. The mail gets caught on the outbox.
But email works correctly if I use outlook.com. It also works correctly when I use Thunderbird on my desktop PC.
The error message with recent versions of K9 is
“Failed to send some messages
SmtpResponseParserException: Unexpected end of stream”
The relevant section of the error log is
07-21 17:01:38.311 8056 8376 I MessagingController: Running command ‘sendPendingMessages’, seq = 1175 (background priority)
07-21 17:01:38.335 8056 8376 I MessagingController: Scanning Outbox folder for messages to send
07-21 17:01:38.336 8056 8376 I MessagingController: Send count for message K9LOCAL:7d286420-743b-4837-ade2-160ea66ef232 is 0
07-21 17:01:38.358 8056 8376 V LockableDatabase: LockableDatabase: Transaction ended, took 13 ms / com.fsck.k9.mailstore.LocalMessage.setFlag(LocalMessage.java:260)
07-21 17:01:38.359 8056 8376 I MessagingController: Sending message with UID K9LOCAL:7d286420-743b-4837-ade2-160ea66ef232
07-21 17:01:38.359 8056 8376 D SmtpTransport: SMTP >>> QUIT
07-21 17:01:41.699 8056 8376 V SmtpTransport: SMTP <<< 220 mailx.hosts.net.nz - ESMTP - alcott - Thu, 21 Jul 2022 17:01:43 +1200
07-21 17:01:41.700 8056 8376 D SmtpTransport: SMTP >>> EHLO [127.0.0.1]
07-21 17:01:41.739 8056 8376 V SmtpTransport: SMTP <<< 550-#h1 - An IP of 127.0.0.1 as a HELO is not currently accepted due to high
07-21 17:01:41.739 8056 8376 V SmtpTransport: SMTP <<< 550 volumes of bot activity
07-21 17:01:41.740 8056 8376 V SmtpTransport: Server doesn’t support the EHLO command. Trying HELO…
07-21 17:01:41.741 8056 8376 D SmtpTransport: SMTP >>> HELO [127.0.0.1]
07-21 17:01:41.743 8056 8376 V SmtpTransport$logger: SMTP response data on parser error:
07-21 17:01:41.745 8056 8376 E MessagingController: Failed to send message
07-21 17:01:41.745 8056 8376 E MessagingController: com.fsck.k9.mail.transport.smtp.SmtpResponseParserException: Unexpected end of stream
My phone is a Nokia 9 running Android 10 and my K9 version 6.201.
I get the same behaviour on an HTC One_M8 running Android 6.
I have ESET Mobile Security on my Nokia but nothing like this on the HTC so I don’t think this is the problem.
A colleague with another model of Nokia running Android 10 and also using “Freeparking.co.nz” is experiencing a similar problem but it started a little later than with me and for a brief period the problem went away but has now reoccurred possibly when K9 upgraded to 6.201.
I temporarily had neither wifi nor mobile data while I sent a mail. After max_retries the mail was put in the outbox, but “send mails…” from the outbox menu does not work. So as a user you’re kind of stuck.
@cketti :
Couldn’t k9mail use a delay of say 2^n seconds and retry for n = 1,…,20?
And in particular reset the retry counter(s) (and permanentness of the error) when you tap “send mails…” in the outbox menu manually.