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Re: how to interrupt



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On Tuesday, August 26 at 09:44 PM, quoth bill lam:
>Hi All,
>Sometime mutt hangs or waits for a long time during downloading or
>uploading mail.  Is there any method to interrupt other than killall?

There's no way to interrupt that doesn't kill mutt; but you have a few 
options:

1. control-\ (in most terminals, this sends a SIGKILL)
2. use kill (using killall is not very precise)

You can also reduce the length of time that mutt will wait for 
connection timeouts (modify $connect_timeout).

~Kyle
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