On 14-04-2021 16:19, Hendrik Boom wrote: > I have an unreliable connection between my server and the rest of the > world. > Yes, I'm going to have to deal with that; it's not what I'm asking about. > > I have a reliable wired connection from my laptop to my server. > And I run mutt on my server, connecting to it by ssh. > > What puzzles me is that every now and then, communication from my laptop to > mutt mysteriously pauses. After a while, it resumes. > > Using a separate ssh connection to root on the server (which I use to > monitor my unreliable connectino to the rest of the world), I've noticed: > > That separate ssh connection stays up when mutt blocks. But using > ifconfig on that separate ssh connection tells me that pppoe connection to > the rest of the world is off when mutt blocks. > > Why does mutt block, not even letting me type into the editor for an email > I plan to send, when the ppp connection is down? What does mutt have to do > with an internet connection? Isn't that postfix/s job? > > -- hendrik > _______________________________________________ > Dng mailing list > Dng@lists.dyne.org > https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
Most likely it does do a domain name lookup which times out by lack of a ppp connection. Grtz Nick
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