On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 05:46:58PM -0500, Chuck Smith wrote: > This is my first week of using MUtt and so far I love it! I have been doing a > lot of reading and configuring and clearly can see the power of the Mutt. > > I have a interesting displying issue that I would like to sort out but it > appears to only come from my one persons e-mail address from MS Exchange 6.5 > Mailer. For some reason, other than its Microsoft, the is a character ( ^M ) > at the end of each line. I am assuming it is a hard return. I have saved the > message in a text file (US-ASCII) and the characters do not exist. > > I am curious where this character comes from and if there is any way to have > Mutt hide it or filter it out. > The character that shows up as ^M is a Carriage Return, Microsoft's conventional line ending is Carriage Return *and* Linefeed whereas Unix/Linux and all related systems use only Linefeed to terminate lines.
Usually the ^M characters get filtered out along the way but obviously in this one case that's not happening. I seem to remember there is a mutt workaround to make the ^M disappear but someone else will have to enlighten you on that front. -- Chris Green
