[Users] How do I?

[Liz]

On Sun, 14 Jun 2015 21:14:00 +1000
Liz <edodd55 at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sun, 14 Jun 2015 10:40:33 +0100
> Paul <claws at thewildbeast.co.uk> wrote:
> 
> > On Sun, 14 Jun 2015 15:49:58 +1000
> > Liz <edodd55 at gmail.com> wrote: 
> > 
> > > Abort Claws fetching mail when the internet connection drops??
> > > It takes a long time for 4 times the timeout, during which time
> > > Claws valiantly tries to reach 4 off-site mail servers, and I
> > > can't browse my email at all until it gives up.
> > > Subsequent tries on the same internet outage don't take as long.
> > 
> > For me it's more or less instant.
> > 
> > > Could someone tell me how I can abort the "Get Mail" sequence?
> > 
> > /Message/Receive/Cancel receiving
> > 
> > with regards
> > 
> > Paul
> 
> Thanks, Paul.

Tried this morning, and no effect.
One remote mail server off-line, waited about 2 min for time out,
cannot use Claws during this time - "busy" icon only.
Tried the "cancel receiving" 3 or 4 times with no effect.
Claws Mail 3.11.1
Debian stretch/sid

System Information
GTK+ 2.24.25 / GLib 2.42.1
Locale: en_AU.UTF-8 (charset: UTF-8)
Operating System: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 (x86_64)