[NTLUG:Discuss] Mail Problem

[Richard Cobbe]

Lo, on Thursday, November 8, Bobby Sanders did write:

> --On Wed, 07 Nov 2001 15:52:11 "Val W. Harris" <vwharris at airmail.net>
>  said:
> 
> VWH> Bobby Sanders wrote:
> 
>    VWH/BS> I use fetchmail to retrieve mail from my ISP (POP3) and VM
>    VWH/BS> 6.75 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid
>    VWH/BS> for my mail agent.
> 
>    VWH/BS> Suddenly all of my incoming messages display a "^M"
>    VWH/BS> appended to each line of the messages.  Very annoying.
>    VWH/BS> .....
> 
> VWH> Does your mail agent have an option to suppress the visibility
> VWH> of the <CR> that's accidently been turned off?
> 
> That, of course, is precisely one of the questions I was trying to
> ask, but you stated it much more succinctly. Thanks.
> 
> I finally gave up and rebooted.  Everything worked fine then.  (I hate
> it when I refuse to spend enough time to learn how to solve a problem
> _without_ rebooting.  That is such a Microsoft thing. Oh well, at
> least I have the option!)

Since VM runs inside emacs, there are far more configuration options than
we mere mortals can be expected to know.

(As you can tell from my headers, I use VM 6.72 under XEmacs 21.1.10
myself.)  I've not actually seen this behavior, but I think that XEmacs may
somehow have gotten itself into a mode where the buffer contained CR/LF
pairs but it expected only LFs---I know that FSF Emacs 20 tries to Do The
Right Thing here.  Unfortunately, I'm not sufficiently familiar with this
particular part of emacs to know 

Did you try just killing and restarting your Emacs process before you
rebooted?  Did that help?

Richard