[bug-mailutils] Timeout for movemail

[Jean Louis]

Dear Sergey,

is there anyway to setup timeout for movemail?

The problem is for months. I am not on best
Internet connection. So movemail stops somewhere
in the middle, and hangs.

Then I need to kill it. Then to restart it.

Progress feature is helping, because I can see it
is somewhere on the message 45 out of 214.

It would be good to be able to set timeout so that
if movemail is hanging for more than 30 - 60
seconds that it cancels the operation and tries
again with messages not done.

I have found timeout references in info for
mailutils but I am not sure if it works for
movemail.

Jean


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[Sergey Poznyakoff]

Hi Jean,

Post by Jean Louis
is there anyway to setup timeout for movemail?

No, so far there is not. Please use the timeout command from GNU
coreutils:

timeout 5m movemail [other options]

Regards,
Sergey

[Jean Louis]

Post by Sergey Poznyakoff
Hi Jean,

Post by Jean Louis
is there anyway to setup timeout for movemail?

No, so far there is not. Please use the timeout command from GNU
timeout 5m movemail [other options]

I did not know that solution, that is nice. Thank you.