Oh my, there are several bugs here! Some kinda nasty.
For some reason the 'q' is being ignored in the cases you showed.
Entering 'mail q' from a read/action prompt drops you back to the
main prompt visibly, while actually you are still in the topic you
were in when you issued the command! You can continue to read messages
with a return, but you can't reply/say/etc, because the parser doesn't
think you are joined to a topic. Probably a good scenario for a crash.
Anonymous