On Thu, Apr 15, 2021 at 05:40:25AM +1000, onefang wrote: > On 2021-04-14 17:49:45, [email protected] wrote: > > On 14-04-2021 16:19, Hendrik Boom wrote: > > > I have an unreliable connection between my server and the rest of the > > > world. > > > Yes, I'm going to have to deal with that; it's not what I'm asking about. > > > > > > I have a reliable wired connection from my laptop to my server. > > > And I run mutt on my server, connecting to it by ssh. > > > > > > What puzzles me is that every now and then, communication from my laptop > > > to > > > mutt mysteriously pauses. After a while, it resumes. > > > > > > Using a separate ssh connection to root on the server (which I use to > > > monitor my unreliable connectino to the rest of the world), I've noticed: > > > > > > That separate ssh connection stays up when mutt blocks. But using > > > ifconfig on that separate ssh connection tells me that pppoe connection > > > to > > > the rest of the world is off when mutt blocks. > > > > > > Why does mutt block, not even letting me type into the editor for an > > > email > > > I plan to send, when the ppp connection is down? What does mutt have to > > > do > > > with an internet connection? Isn't that postfix/s job? > > > > > > -- hendrik > > > > Most likely it does do a domain name lookup which times out by lack of a > > ppp connection. > > I've been using neomutt. On ASCII it was renamed to mutt, on Beowulf > they named it back to neomutt, and the mutt package is actual mutt. I > dunno which one you are using.
I'm running ascii, and the package mutt is installed, so I suspect based on what you say it must be neomutt. > > ASCII was on my old desktop, and Beowulf is on my new super desktop. I > use a local IMAP server running on the same computer in each case. The > ASCII version on the old computer would do that sort of mysterious pause > where all you can do is wait for it to unpause. The Beowulf version on > the new computer does that rarely. It was very annoying under ASCII, not > so much under Beowulf. That sounds like the pause I'm experiencing. > > I use fetchmail to gather emails from my various email providers, that > dumps them into my local IMAP server. > > I suspect the difference was the computers, not the version of neomutt. > Or it could just be if the check of IMAP stumbles across the fetchmail > process updating the IMAP folders. Or perhaps this later version mostly > fixed that pause. Maybe some combination of the three. I do not use IMAP. postfix just puts everything in to my mbox of incoming email. Anyone know how synchronisation between mutt and postfix works? I presume it's only needed when exiting mutt and it rewrites the file... or is the mechanism something different? > > The Beowulf version does have a problem with showing the O old email > marker as N new email (a known bug). Which is even more annoying. I'm > considering installing ASCII in a VM on this new super desktop, and > running the ASCII version in it. If I do that, I might find out if the > pause gets worse. > > (For reference, old computer was an 11 year old AMD system with 8 GB of > RAM, new super desktop is an AMD Threadripper with 256 GB of RAM.) Mine is about as old; but only 2GB of RAM. -- hendrik _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list [email protected] https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
