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Bug 559834

Summary: mail-client/mutt[gnutls] freezes downloading imaps messages
Product: Gentoo Linux Reporter: Chris Xe <cxe-gentoo-bugs>
Component: Current packagesAssignee: Fabian Groffen <grobian>
Status: RESOLVED UPSTREAM    
Severity: normal CC: cxe-gentoo-bugs, n-roeser, net-mail+disabled
Priority: Normal    
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: AMD64   
OS: Linux   
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Runtime testing required: ---

Description Chris Xe 2015-09-07 07:22:33 UTC
Both the lastest stable (1.5.23-r8) and masked (1.5.24-r1) mail-client/mutt will hang after connecting to an imap server with an encrypted connection. This only happens for the 1.5.24 version if "gnutls" USE flag is set (i.e. I temporarily fixed mine by going with the latest version with "-gnutls"). I'd say this is related to this bug:
http://dev.mutt.org/trac/ticket/3772
I would suggest that Gentoo just remove the gnutls flag until its properly fixed.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.package.use = mail-client/mutt imap mbox gpg ssl smime smtp gnutls
2.emerge mutt
3.muttrc = set spoolfile='imaps://imap.isp.com'
4.mutt
Actual Results:  
Hangs while fetching messages. Says something like "0/137" and never moves. Can't Ctrl-C to terminate. The number of remote messages to process is correct so we know it's making a connection.

Expected Results:  
Downloads the messages.
Comment 1 Chris Xe 2015-09-07 07:32:52 UTC
net-libs/gnutls
      Latest version available: 3.3.17.1
      Latest version installed: 3.3.17.1
Comment 2 Fabian Groffen gentoo-dev 2015-09-08 13:53:25 UTC
I've masked USE=gnutls per your suggestion, thanks!