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

[Joris Mooij]

On Wed, Sep 07, 2016 at 05:53:14AM +0000, Antonio Radici wrote:
> Control: tag -1 +moreinfo
> 
> 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.

Hi,

I haven't encountered this behavior for a long time now, so I guess that it
has been fixed meanwhile.

Best wishes,
Joris