[NTLUG:Discuss] Mail Problem

[Val W. Harris]

Bobby Sanders wrote:

>Help please,
>
>I use fetchmail to retrieve mail from my ISP (POP3) and VM 6.75 under
>21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid for my mail agent.
>
>Suddenly all of my incoming messages display a "^M" appended to each
>line of the messages.  Very annoying.  These control characters are
>not printed when I look at the files using using less.  Apparently I
>have accidently changed or corruption has changed a setting in VM.
>Does anyone know of the top of their head, how to control this
>behavior in VM or have any suggestions re where to start looking?
>
>Thanks in advance.
>
>Bobby Sanders
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>
Bobby,

The Control-M is the carriage retrun that dos based o/s's put at the end
of each line, ( it's half of the CR/LF pair ).  Linux/Unix o/s's put a
line-feed at the end of the line.  Does your mail agent have an option to
suppress the visibility of the <CR> that's accidently been turned off?

Hope this helps,

Val

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