cmping hangs if cached configured account cannot connect

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Difficulty
2/5
Estimated time
1-3 hours
Newbie friendliness
68/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Clearly specified
Activity status
Quiet
Tech stack
python
Domain
cli, networking

Research direction

Start with cmping.py lines 414-417 and reproduce the issue using a cached account with nftables dropping packets. Trace how the "waiting for profiles to be online" loop handles an unreachable server. Done means cmping exits or reports the connection failure instead of hanging indefinitely.

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Description

To reproduce:

  1. Configure an account on some server by running cmping example.org example.org (I used ci-chatmail.testrun.org)
  2. Configure nftables to drop all packets
  3. Run cmping again, see it hangs forever on "waiting for profiles to be online":
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Hangs in this loop:
https://github.com/chatmail/cmping/blob/7f6923793a4114f42ee59c54bbcee9f13280fbaa/cmping.py#L414-L417

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