[Pkg-mutt-maintainers] Bug#774746: mutt: Mutt freezes on some screens

[Antonio Radici]

tag 774746 +moreinfo
thanks

On Wed, Jan 07, 2015 at 01:53:35AM -0200, Alexandre Lymberopoulos wrote:
> Package: mutt
> Version: 1.5.23-3
> Severity: important
> 
> Dear Maintainer,
> 
> Somtimes mutt freezes at some screens. The ones I noticed are after
> sending a message and inside a maildir (I use remote IMAP dirs)
> displaying usual information (From and Subject) of the messages on
> that folder, usually after sometime without interacting with it.
> 
> After replying a message it wrote "Mail sent." on the last line and
> after a long time (several minutes) it returns to the message I've
> just replied and no key has effect. The same happens on the maildirs
> view.
> 
> I noticed this using mutt inside a urxvt console terminal over
> XFCE. The only action with some (undesirable) effect is to close that
> window.
> 
> I can provide any guided debugging upon request.
> 

Hi Alexandre,
could you check if this is reproducible in the latest unstable version? 1.6.2-3
at the time of writing.

If that is the case, could you let us know a way to reproduce it reliably? If we
use urxvt will that be enough to have the freeze?