[ext] breaking out of mutt on locked up connect?

[Ralf Hildebrandt]

* Tom Fowle <wa6ivgtf at fastmail.fm>:

> As fastmail is having "dos" attacks, sometimes mutt (1.5.23) hangs on the
> "connecting to mail.messagingengine.com" statement.
> Nothing I can think of to try will break the locked state short of
> rebooting.

Windows? Unix?
On Linux/Unix I just do a "CTRL-Z" followed by "bg && killall mutt && mutt"