[NTLUG:Discuss] Mail Problem

[Bobby Sanders]

--On Thu, 8 Nov 2001 16:27:54 -0600 (CST), Richard Cobbe <cobbe at airmail.net> said:

  RC> 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> .....
....

  >> I finally gave up and rebooted.  Everything worked fine then.
,,

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

Ain't it th' truth. Ain't it th' truth.  (With apologizes to the
Cowardly Lion.)

  RC> (As you can tell from my headers, I use VM 6.72 under XEmacs
  RC> 21.1.10 myself.)  I've not actually seen this behavior, but I
  RC> think that XEmacs may somehow have gotten itself into a mode
  RC> where the buffer contained CR/LF pairs but it expected only

But the CR/LF were only in the new mail received from my POP
server. Also, all of the messages showed a size of 0 in the header
list, but the message bodies were there and apparently intact.

  RC> LFs---I know that FSF Emacs 20 tries to Do The Right Thing here.
  RC> Unfortunately, I'm not sufficiently familiar with this
  RC> particular part of emacs to know

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

NO. Dang it!  I wish I had.  In fact, I wish I had tried
exiting/starting VM, XEmacs, XWindows and then rebooting, in that
order.  I would really like to have some idea of which one of these
programs went crazy.  I just got too focused on trying to complete the
immediate project.  Oh well, next time - and with my clumsy fingers,
there will be a next time.

Thanks for the input

Bobby