Hi,
I would be very interested in testing your patch (I don't have enough
experience with the code-base to review it).
The patch that Kevin mentioned can be found in this thread:
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.mail.mutt.devel/21880/focus=21890
Thanks!
Yoshiki.
On (Apr-23-15| 7:52), Kevin J. McCarthy wrote:
> egbert. wrote:
> > There was an irritating glitch, which I have also seen mentioned a few
> > times
> > online. It is that if you have mutt open, pack up your laptop, and go
> > somewhere else, mutt is completely unresponsive and needs to be killed. I
> > tracked down what was causing this and to my satisfaction my fix works.
> >
> > Would you be interested in this patch? And, if the intended behaviour is
> > that it should hang like this, then perhaps my fix could be implemented as
> > a
> > config variable. (It’s basically just a simple timeout + retry mechanism in
> > the socket_connect function).
>
> Please go ahead and post your patch, either to this list, or perhaps to
> a ticket. It looks like http://dev.mutt.org/trac/ticket/3369 or
> http://dev.mutt.org/trac/ticket/3491 might be related.
>
> Most of the committers are quite busy right now, so it may take a while
> to get a response.
>
> > Also, you’ve probably talked about this many times before, but is there a
> > reason not to implement a config option to call a command when there is new
> > mail?
>
> Yoshiki Vazquez Baeza posted a patch for this a couple months ago, and
> David Champion is incorporating it into a related patch set.
>
> -Kevin
