flim email send: break with C-g? (wl: message 16 of 20)

[John Owens]

Katsumi Yamaoka writes:
    >>>>> In [emacs-mime-en : No.00143]
    >>>>>	John Owens <wl.20.jowens at spamgourmet.com> wrote:
    
    > I send mail through flim from home (on a DSL connection). Sometimes I
    > assemble a large message, start to send it, and then realize it's
    > going to take a long long time to send because it's big. Then I'd like
    > to hit control-g to cancel the send.
    
    What modules of FLIM are you using and how are you using them
    incorporated with VM and XEmacs?  There is no information for
    helping you.  As far as I know, there is no code which blocks
    C-g in FLIM.

Sorry, my bad for not posting versions:

User-Agent: Wanderlust/2.10.1 (Watching The Wheels) SEMI/1.14.6
(Maruoka) FLIM/1.14.6 (Marutamachi) APEL/10.6 Emacs/21.3.50
(powerpc-apple-darwin7.4.0) MULE/5.0 (SAKAKI)

This is a CVS build of FSF emacs. (It is not associated with VM - the
account I'm posting from now is not the account in which I'm having
this problem.)
    
    > However, C-g does not seem to work during a message send. It would
    > seem like hitting C-g during a message send would be a useful feature,
    > and would simply return to the buffer from which the mail was being
    > sent (and would leave the message unchanged).
    
    > Currently, I can't break out of a message send at all and have to quit
    > emacs and restart.
    
    What is likely is XEmacs is being caught by an external process,
    which is for communicating to a SMTP server for example.
    Otherwise, after connecting to a server, when it is late to
    begin to send data, I experienced that a server didn't respond.
    A body encoder or something may waste time then for a big mail.

Yes, this seems to be the case. It says "Sending ..." at the bottom
and is communicating with the server. The emacs window HAS refresh but
does not respond to any keystrokes including C-g. I have to force-quit
emacs from the operating system. Is it possible to use C-g to
interrupt the communication? I don't know that I need to use ELP to
debug it since I'm pretty sure where it's getting stuck ... but how
can I unstick it?

Thank you for the detailed reply.

JDO