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

[Tom Fowle]

On Mon, Oct 25, 2021 at 08:32:53AM +0200, Ralf Hildebrandt wrote:
> * 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"
> 
Sorry forgot to mention debian. and the old greyware didn't think of kill
till I'd already written the message.
Embarrassed,
Thanks for the several replies.
Tom