How to abort sending a mail?

[Chris Green]

On Mon, Jun 26, 2023 at 02:52:10PM +0200, Matthias Apitz wrote:
> El día lunes, junio 26, 2023 a las 12:55:08 +0200, Max Görner escribió:
> 
> > Hello all,
> > 
> > I have a Mutt window open which hangs at the "Connection to ... establishing"¹
> > step. This happens very rarely but is quite annoying. In general, I am able to
> > send mails reliably and without issues.
> > 
> > My only known option is to kill `mutt`, which I dislike. Is there a better way
> > to abort that process?
> > 
> > Best, Max
> > 
> > 1: Actually, it is "Verbindung zu subdomain.example.com wird aufgebaut …" but
> >    the above translation should do the job.
> 
> I have sometimes the same issue using mutt on my Linux phone where the
> IP to my mobile carrier is not fully up. mutt sits there saying
> 
> Connecting to imap.1blu.de
> 
> and the only way is to kill the terminal app.
> 
Doesn't the sendmail_wait setting address this issue?  Or, if you're
using SMTP to send mail the  connect_timeout setting.

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Chris Green