[MlMt] email getting stuck until a restart

Steven M. Bellovin smb at cs.columbia.edu
Sat Aug 20 14:42:55 EDT 2016


On 20 Aug 2016, at 9:23, Benny Kjær Nielsen wrote:

> On 18 Aug 2016, at 16:39, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
>
>> Last week, while on an airplane, I composed several emails.  WiFi was 
>> on so that I could watch the flight info map, but since I did not pay 
>> for Internet access the email couldn't go out.  That was fine; it was 
>> what I expected.  I did receive pop-ups asking about certificate 
>> mismatches; naturally, I declined to let MailMate continue.  
>> However...  when I got home and was properly online, the emails did 
>> not go out.  Instead, when I restarted MailMate after a system crash, 
>> they went out, confusing my recipients.
>
> I'm very sorry about that and it's actually a known issue. Recently I 
> believe I was able to reproduce it and I also fixed a potential issue. 
> I'm not yet 100% sure it has been fixed though.
>
> Hold down ⌥ when clicking “Check Now” in the Software Update 
> preferences pane to get the latest test release which includes this 
> fix.
>
Thanks!  (I should have mentioned that I'm running 2.0 beta, though 
probably not completely up to date.)


         --Steve Bellovin, https://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb




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