On Sat, Sep 03, 2016 at 04:21:57PM -0000, Mutt wrote: > Currently there are operation that locks mutt and you cannot really > interrupt them, sometimes it's because of SA_RESTART on the signal mask > and some other times I haven't found a reason so I'm asking your help to > produce a patch. [...] > (2) do the following > > (a) open a IMAP mailbox > > (b) iptables -A OUTPUT -d imap_server_ip -j DROP > > (c) mutt freezes
I agree. In certain cases, including ones like this, ^G won't abort the IMAP connection, and ^C also won't kill Mutt, so you have to suspend and kill, which is annoying. It would also be great if ^G worked in situations such as the one described, to abort the IMAP operation without closing Mutt (as I believe is intended). w
