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Re: Interrupted System Calls



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On Thursday, May 15 at 09:58 AM, quoth Dylan Stamat:
> I'm on a brand new OSX (leopard) mutt-devel install, and every time 
> I try to send an email via smtp, I get the following:
>
> Could not connect to gmail.com (Interrupted system call).

As you've read, the interrupt is usually a timeout. If you're getting 
the timeout right away, try increasing the timeout. If you're getting 
the timeout after a couple seconds, maybe your smtp url isn't right. 
Let's see it (don't send the password, of course).

I use Leopard, and my smtp_url setting is 
"smtp://kyle:XXXXX@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/"

> This happens consistently, and the only hack I've been able to find 
> is the following:  http://bugs.mutt.org/trac/ticket/2059

> However, this is pretty hacky, and this is a flat out mutt-devel 
> install via ports, so don't have much in the way of extra services 
> which could be competing (afaik).

Where do you get the idea that there's some sort of competition 
involved?

> Mutt 1.5.17 (2007-11-01)
> System: Darwin 9.2.0 (i386)

Update your system! Mine is Darwin 9.2.2. You never know, it could be 
an OSX bug that got fixed.

> ncurses: ncurses 5.6.20061217 (compiled with 5.6)
> libiconv: 1.11
> hcache backend: GDBM version 1.8.3. 10/15/2002 (built May 13 2008 
> 22:49:47)

As I recall, there are some weird problems with certain hcache 
backends on OSX. I don't remember which ones are bad (it's either BDB 
or GDBM; I forget), but I can tell you qdbm works flawlessly.

~Kyle
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