[Alpine-info] alpine hangs but sends mail

[Eduardo Chappa via Alpine-info]

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


>> 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).


It looks like the manual needs an update.


> [...]

>> 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?


If you cannot wait, see if using the gdb program to attach to the process 
produces an output that you can trace and see where the problem is 
happening.

Thank you.

-- 
Eduardo