Re: IMAP problem sending mail
On Tuesday, 26 July 2005 at 13:44, Sayantan Sur wrote:
> Hi,
>
> This is a peculiar problem I have been experiencing using IMAP support
> with mutt. To reproduce the problem, do this:
>
> 1) Open inbox
> 2) Start composing mail
> 3) Send an email to your account (from which you are composing) using
> any other email (e.g. Gmail)
> 4) Complete composing mail
> 5) Press 'y' to send out the mail
> 6) You will see an error like "Connection to remote server closed",
> followed by "Create Mail/Sent?" [apparently mutt attempts to create a
> local sent folder, whereas my sent folder is on the imap host].
> Additionally, on trying to postpone the message (i.e. attempting to
> save what you have typed) sometimes leads to segfault.
According to the muttdebug log, this problem is set off because your
IMAP server is crashing. So it's not easy for those of us with better
servers to reproduce. But try the following untested patch and let us
know what the new behaviour is.
Thanks,
-b