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List:       mutt-users
Subject:    Re: [ext] breaking out of mutt on locked up connect?
From:       Tom Fowle <wa6ivgtf () fastmail ! fm>
Date:       2021-10-26 1:17:43
Message-ID: 20211026011743.GC2781 () qlf ! suddenlink ! net
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On Mon, Oct 25, 2021 at 08:32:53AM +0200, Ralf Hildebrandt wrote:
> * Tom Fowle <wa6ivgtf@fastmail.fm>:
> 
> > As fastmail is having "dos" attacks, sometimes mutt (1.5.23) hangs on the
> > "connecting to mail.messagingengine.com" statement.
> > Nothing I can think of to try will break the locked state short of
> > rebooting.
> 
> Windows? Unix?
> On Linux/Unix I just do a "CTRL-Z" followed by "bg && killall mutt && mutt"
> 
Sorry forgot to mention debian. and the old greyware didn't think of kill
till I'd already written the message.
Embarrassed,
Thanks for the several replies.
Tom 
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