[Alpine-info] alpine hangs but sends mail

[David Chmelik via Alpine-info]

On 8/24/25 10:20 AM, Eduardo Chappa via Alpine-info wrote:

> 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.

More so the case for manpage, which doesn't say 'tcp' so don't know what 
command below does (okay, now saw it mentioned in 
/usr/local/share/doc/alpine/tech-notes.txt).


> First, make sure you are using the latest version of Alpine, if not, 

> upgrade to version 2.26, and reproduce the problem.

OpenBSD UNIX 7.7 (64-bit n64) 'Alpine 2.26 (BSO 649 2022-06-02) built 
Wed Apr 9 13:06:04 MDT 2025 on amd64-1.ports.openbsd.org'


> 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

I'm only using shell mail (implied, localhost maildir, SMTP) not IMAP 
and will use POP3 at home.


> 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.

  How many hours should I wait for it saying sending 0% before I kill 
screen/SSH, but if I do (even for an hour) seems it won't write debug log?