More/new smtp issues

[Jack <ostroffjh users sourceforge net>]

This is more for general discussion, since by the time I will have time  
to actually fully troubleshoot this issue, there is a good chance I  
will have concelled my service with this particular ISP.  (This is  
Frontier DSL in CT.)  However:

Up until a few weeks/months ago, I had no problem sending mail through  
my frontier.com account.  At some point, however, it just stopped  
going, but did not provide any error message.  I have looked through  
previous email threads on this list about this very topic, but nothing  
there seems to make any difference now.

Using Albrecht's suggestion of "G_MESSAGES_DEBUG=all balsa > LOG.out  
2>&"  (modified to combine stdout and stderror to one file) and then  
trimming down the file, I get the following when starting balsa,  
toggling off the flag on the message in the outbox, and trying to send  
again:


** Message: init gpgme version 1.8.0
** Message: protocol OpenPGP: engine /usr/bin/gpg2 (home (null),  
version 2.1.20)
** Message: protocol CMS: engine /usr/bin/gpgsm (home (null), version  
2.1.20)
** Message: protocol GPGCONF: engine /usr/bin/gpgconf (home (null),  
version 2.1.20)
** Message: protocol Assuan: engine /run/user/501/gnupg/S.gpg-agent  
(home !GPG_AGENT, version 1.0.0)
** Message: protocol UIServer: engine /run/user/501/gnupg/S.uiserver  
(home (null), version 1.0.0)
** Message: protocol Spawn: engine /nonexistent (home (null), version  
1.0.0)
** Message: OpenPGP protocol supported
** Message: CMS (aka S/MIME) protocol supported
Network is available   (Fri 27 Oct 2017 04:24:21 PM EDT)
(balsa:2296): Gtk-DEBUG: Connecting to session manager
(balsa:2296): Gtk-DEBUG: Failed to get the GNOME session proxy: The  
name org.gnome.SessionManager is not owned
(balsa:2296): Gtk-DEBUG: Failed to get the Xfce session proxy: The name  
org.xfce.SessionManager is not owned
(balsa:2296): Gtk-DEBUG: Failed to get an inhibit portal proxy: The  
name org.freedesktop.portal.Desktop is not owned
Local folder (many snipped)
Local mailbox (many snipped)
balsa_open_mailbox_list: opening file: (three lines snipped)
bmbn_scan_children_idle: mailbox “(snipped many)” was already scanned
[1509135863] ../../balsa-git/src/balsa-index.c | 1933
** (balsa:2296): DEBUG: libbalsa_smtp_server_trylock: lock frontier: 1
** (balsa:2296): DEBUG: libbalsa_smtp_server_trylock: lock gmail: 1
** (balsa:2296): DEBUG: libbalsa_smtp_server_trylock: lock yahoo: 1
** (balsa:2296): DEBUG: finalised connection to smtp.gmail.com
** (balsa:2296): DEBUG: libbalsa_smtp_server_unlock: unlock gmail
** (balsa:2296): DEBUG: finalised connection to smtp.mail.yahoo.com:587
** (balsa:2296): DEBUG: libbalsa_smtp_server_unlock: unlock yahoo
** (balsa:2296): DEBUG: balsa_send_message_real: starting
** (balsa:2296): DEBUG: connected to smtp.frontier.com
** (balsa:2296): DEBUG: R '220 relay03.roch.ny.frontiernet.net ESMTP  
Postfix'
** (balsa:2296): DEBUG: W 'EHLO ffortso4'
** (balsa:2296): DEBUG: R '250-relay03.roch.ny.frontiernet.net'
** (balsa:2296): DEBUG: R '250-PIPELINING'
** (balsa:2296): DEBUG: R '250-SIZE 36350634'
** (balsa:2296): DEBUG: R '250-ETRN'
** (balsa:2296): DEBUG: R '250-AUTH PLAIN LOGIN'
** (balsa:2296): DEBUG: R '250-AUTH=PLAIN LOGIN'
** (balsa:2296): DEBUG: R '250-ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES'
** (balsa:2296): DEBUG: R '250-8BITMIME'
** (balsa:2296): DEBUG: R '250 DSN'
** (balsa:2296): DEBUG: balsa_send_message_real: connect = 0  
[0xc02480]: 'relay03.roch.ny.frontiernet.net ESMTP Postfix'
** (balsa:2296): DEBUG: libbalsa_smtp_server_unlock: unlock frontier
** (balsa:2296): DEBUG: W 'QUIT'
** (balsa:2296): DEBUG: R '221 2.0.0 Bye'
** (balsa:2296): DEBUG: finalised connection to smtp.frontier.com
balsa_app: Finished cleaning up.


One question is that I don't understand why  
libbalsa_smtp_server_trylock shows up for all three defined outgoing  
mail servers.  frontier is the one in question.  The other two work  
fine.  The issue is that I get no error message at all - balsa just  
sets the flag on the message and leaves it in the outbox.

This is with balsa 2.5.3a-187-g7291ba34 compiled from git.  I don't  
think that is quite the latest, so slap my wrist if there are more  
recent commits which might make a difference.

Also - only as I'm writing this am I wondering if some commit since the  
last released version might actually be relevant here, or maybe even a  
change in the configure options I've used.  My compiled version is with  
"--with-gpgme=gpgme-config --with-html-widget=webkit2   
--without-canberra --without-gnome --without-gtksourceview  
--without-gss --without-ldap --with-libnotify --without-rubrica  
--without-sqlite --without-compface --with-spell-checker=gtkspell  
--with-osmo --with-gcr"

Thanks again for any suggestions.

Jack