[Alpine-info] alpine hangs but sends mail

[Eduardo Chappa via Alpine-info]

On Sun, 24 Aug 2025, David Chmelik via Alpine-info wrote:


> On OpenBSD UNIX 7.7, Alpine hangs--saying 0% done for maybe an hour--but 

> sends mail... PO my sysadmin testing a few times saying submit 

> configuration (default), logs (don't know where).  ((re-)al)pine was my 

> favourite email client some decades ago, especially college/university 

> 1997 into '0s.  Then I preferred ThunderBird, but I like (re-)alpine 

> most for command-line (is it still re-alpine or back to alpine?). 

> Recent decades it was impossible to use at first because maybe had to 

> send mail to the developers to notify people still use it, and for a 

> time that never went through... don't know if there's some other similar 

> configuration thing I have to do to start using it right on OpenBSD...


There is not a lot of information in your post to give you a meaningful 
answer. First, make sure you are using the latest version of Alpine, if 
not, upgrade to version 2.26, and reproduce the problem.

To get meaningful debug, please do as follows. Press M S C and make sure
you have enabled

  [X]  Enable Verbose SMTP Posting

then quit alpine and restart - the latest version - with the command

alpine -d tcp,imap=4

reproduce the problem, quit alpine and take a look at the file 
.pine-debug1. It will tell you about the problem. If you need help reading 
it, let me know.

-- 
Eduardo