mail stopped polling with last timestamp 2060-01-04 in the logs

[sni]

For some reason, my paperless jumped into year 2060 and does not check any may anymore:
I guess the reason is this:
Searching folder with criteria (SINCE 5-Dec-2059 UNFLAGGED)
Is there any way to reset the "last mail" timestamp to a valid date?

full logs:

[2023-04-13 14:50:02,131] [DEBUG] [paperless_mail] Rule mydomain.tld.Inbox: Processed 11 matching mail(s)
[2023-04-13 14:50:02,131] [DEBUG] [paperless_mail] Rule mydomain.tld.Inbox: Running mail actions on 0 mails
[2060-01-04 01:03:54,771] [DEBUG] [paperless_mail] Processing mail account mydomain.tld
[2060-01-04 01:03:54,945] [DEBUG] [paperless_mail] GMAIL Label Support: False
[2060-01-04 01:03:54,945] [DEBUG] [paperless_mail] AUTH=PLAIN Support: True
[2060-01-04 01:03:55,021] [DEBUG] [paperless_mail] Account mydomain.tld: Processing 1 rule(s)
[2060-01-04 01:03:55,023] [DEBUG] [paperless_mail] Rule mydomain.tld.Inbox: Selecting folder INBOX
[2060-01-04 01:03:55,055] [DEBUG] [paperless_mail] Rule mydomain.tld.Inbox: Searching folder with criteria (SINCE 5-Dec-2059 UNFLAGGED)
[2060-01-04 01:03:55,089] [DEBUG] [paperless_mail] Rule mydomain.tld.Inbox: Processed 0 matching mail(s)
[2060-01-04 01:03:55,089] [DEBUG] [paperless_mail] Rule mydomain.tld.Inbox: Running mail actions on 0 mails

[stumpylog]

Time is provided by your operating system. If you are using Docker, I'd be sure the timezone environment is set and re-create the container fully

[sni]

I recreated the container (using docker) but nothing changed. I also removed the task results from the postgres db which had a 2060 timestamp. Where does paperless store that date of the last mail run, then i could simply change that.

[shamoon]

Well, your container thinks its the year 2060, so when it goes to check emails its looking for any ("maximum age") with a date -30 days (the default). The solution is to fix the timezone, not to set the maximum age to 37 years =)

[sni]

time is fine in those containers:

14:01:20 sven@mo:~ %> dex paperless_webserver_1 
root@f37056d019f1:/usr/src/paperless/src# date
Fri May 26 12:38:33 UTC 2023

I checked the others too. The main paperless.log shows the correct time only the mail.log doesn't show anything after the 2060 entry anymore.

I tried to remove the mail account and rules and recreated them but still nothing is happening. Can i force trigger the mail task manually somehow?

[stumpylog]

Running mail_fetcher

[sni]

great, that worked. So i was able to fetch mail attachments manually with that command, but automatic mail fetching is still not triggered anymore. Who/Where would that be triggered usually?

[stumpylog]

Scheduled tasks are handled by celery beat. You could remove the celerybeat file in your data directory and let the container re-create it on startup.

[sni]

thanks a lot, that did the trick. Now everything is running smoothly again.

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