Re: latest cvs build hanging on smtpmail-send-queued-mail (OS X 10.3.2)

[Simon Josefsson]

John Owens <address@hidden> writes:

> I built the latest emacs from cvs this morning (OS X
> 10.3.2), sent a message via smtpmail (with
> smtpmail-queue-mail t), and then called
> smtpmail-send-queued-mail. Emacs completely hung. I
> had to force-quit it.
>
> Admittedly, I've never got smtpmail to work properly
> with authentication. But it least used to not work
> gracefully and told me there were authentication
> errors. Here, I see the message in the mode line:
>
> Loading [file from my queued mail folder]
> (source)...done
>
> and then it totally hangs.
>
> This happens when I have the smtpmail debug and
> verbose settings set and also when I do not.
>
> I do not know what to do to continue to debug when it
> hangs like this. Even when I set debug-on-error it
> hangs.
>
> I append my setup.

Can you run emacs under gdb, perhaps?  A gdb backtrace might help find
the first problem, i.e., why C-g doesn't work.  My guess would be that
something in the network I/O code doesn't work well with Mac OS X.
Once that problem is fixed, the smtpmail problem can be debugged more
easily.