It might be easier to submit a bug report about the hang, and get that
fixed.  Its not something i've had happen in years.

run gdb on evolution-mail (or evolution if its 1.4), and ctrl-c it when
it hangs, etc.

On Sat, 2003-06-14 at 05:44, John Paul Walters wrote:
> Occasionally I find that Evolution will hang when trying to download email from one 
> of my POP mail accounts.  This usually results in my having to kill and restart 
> Evolution.  Unfortunately this often results in Evolution re-downloading my entire 
> POP mailbox rather than just downloading those messages that haven't been retrieved. 
>  I keep my messages on the POP server for awhile, so when this happens Evolution 
> will often re-download 2000 messages or more(however many happen to be in the 
> mailbox at the time)..  Is there a way to prevent this from happening?  Short of 
> that, is there a way to prune my mail folders from within Evolution to remove 
> duplicate (or triplicate) mails?
> 
> Thanks,
> JP
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