Root Suddenly & inexplicably, my Emails stopped coming

[Lord Vader]

I don't know what happened, but since the evening of Nov. 27th, I have not received a single Email, even though I got over 150 Emails when I checked via my PC. I made no changes to my phone, to my K9 Email account settings--nothing. I've rebooted and wiped Dalvik cache and regular cache, but that hasn't worked. I've uninstalled and re-installed K9, but that hasn't worked. Even my stock Email app isn't working. I've verified my log-in credentials, but those are OK. My polling of every minute remained unchanged as well.

When I go to "folders" in K9, I did notice that on the list of folders, under Inbox it says exactly this:

IOException: Pushback buffe

Any ideas on what's wrong and how I can fix this?

 

[EarlyMon]

Did you get an update to K9?

Looks like an app error.

Is your storage or either sd card (internal or external) full?

 

[Lord Vader]

No, no recent updates to K9. My storage isn't anywhere near full, either. (It's a 32GB SD card, FWIW.)

 

[EarlyMon]

K9 is writing exclusively to your external sd card?

 

[Lord Vader]

No. I believe it just uses that for storage.

 

[EarlyMon]

So, is your app area getting full?

Go into Terminal Emulator, give this command -

df

And post a screen shot if you like.

Do you have message limits set?

Meaning, number of weeks or number of messages worth.

Have you cleared cache for K9?

 

[Lord Vader]

No limits set, and I've cleared my cache--more than once.

Anyway...within the last couple minutes, I again rebooted my phone, and suddenly, a flood of Emails is coming in. This is weird.

 

[EarlyMon]

Interesting.

Anyway, I meant settings, apps, K9 cache - main cache is other, wasn't sure if you were clearing both.

 

[windsorclarenc]

Did you possibly accidentally turn off auto sync? I don't know if that would affect that particular email service though.

 

[Lord Vader]

Interesting.

Anyway, I meant settings, apps, K9 cache - main cache is other, wasn't sure if you were clearing both.

I was--more than once, too.

Did you possibly accidentally turn off auto sync? I don't know if that would affect that particular email service though.

Nope. Didn't touch it. That shouldn't affect K9 Mail, though.

 

[Lord Vader]

Well, the same problem has recurred. Ever since last night, no Emails are coming in. When I go to the app and select folders then Inbox, once again I see this:

IOException: Pushback buffe

Note: My guess is that is supposed to read "buffer" but is truncated simply due to space available in the window "Inbox".


I've done all the usual stuff: cleared cache (phone, app, etc.), uninstalled, re-installed, you name it. Nothing works.

I admit that I'm baffled as to why this is happening.

 

[EarlyMon]

Have you tried the 10 second power button press to reset hardware?

Is someone sending you web links as subject titles?

 

[Lord Vader]

Yes, I actually did do the hard reset. To answer your question, no.

 

[EarlyMon]

Then I'm back to my original suspicion - Something is running over in /data.

Go for a logcat, share it as a text file, not html.

The alogcat app works great.

PS - I'm out the door, will check later this evening.

 

[Lord Vader]

Question--how do I do that?

 

[EarlyMon]

Check out "aLogcat (free) - logcat"

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.jtb.alogcat

The menu button is your friend.

Launch it, set preferences to level Warning, format Tag, back to its main screen, look at the top, see you don't have it paused, hit home, go get a mail error, multitask back to alogcat, pause it, share it.