[Pkg-mutt-maintainers] Bug#722322: mutt hangs occassionally while fetching (big) message via IMAP

[Antonio Radici]

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On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 11:09:00AM +0200, Joris Mooij wrote:
> Package: mutt
> Version: 1.5.21-6.3
> Severity: normal
> 
> Dear Maintainer,
> 
> When fetching big messages (typically, 1MB or more) from an IMAP server, mutt
> sometimes hangs at some point, displaying e.g. "Fetching message... 2.4M/7.0M
> (34%)" and stalling at that point. Ctrl-C doesn't help, and waiting doesn't
> help either. I usually simply close the terminal and restart mutt and try again
> (which may work, or not), but of course that is not really a solution and this
> may cause me to loose the changes to the mailbox that I made before running
> into this problem.
> 
> The issue is not very reproducible unfortunately, but I suspect that it has to
> do with the networking code, as I have the impression that the problem occurs
> more often on wifi than on cable.
> 
> If you need more information, please let me know and I will see what I can do.
> 
> Best wishes,
> Joris Mooij
> 

Hi,
is this still the case? I believe this got fixed a while ago, if it's not the
case let us know!

BTW in 1.7.0-2 you will be able to Ctrl-C and interrupt the syscall.