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Wes Hardaker <wes@hardakers.net> writes:

>>>>>> On Wed, 23 Oct 2002 11:30:34 +0200, Niklas Morberg <niklas.morberg@axis.com> said:
>
> Niklas> a) Abort downloading of attachments once started?
>
> Well, personally I use a ssh connection to my imap server so that when
> I run into the problem you're seeing I can actually kill the ssh
> client on my laptop, which closes the connection.  You're making me
> glad I do things this way, as if it was a straight socket connection
> from inside gnus itself I couldn't do this.

Killing the *nnimap* server buffer do this.  `C' in the server buffer
waits for the server to respond to a LOGOUT command that is sent, so
it doesn't work here.  A command C-u C that forced the backend to
disconnect could perhaps be useful.