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Re: Mutt hangs, Network Issue?



=- Hal Burgiss wrote on Tue 20.May'08 at  9:30:27 -0400 -=

> The problem is at work. I routinely interact with several servers
> (Linux and *BSD). I keep terminals with ssh sessions open to all
> these. On one of these, I keep my personal mail spool (mbox). This is
> a CentOS Linux server. The mutt version is mutt-1.4.1-12.0.3.el4. 
> {...}
> This Mutt hangs/freezes probably 10-15 times a day. It is completely
> unresponsive. If I open a second ssh session, and kill the mutt
> process, it generally takes maybe 30 seconds for mutt to let go, and
> to get a shell prompt back.

a) try 1.5.18

b) I only know of stale NFS handles freezing mutt beyond recovery.
Try with local filesys folder open in mutt all day. If it doesn't
hang, it's NFS.

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