0n Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 10:58:06AM +0000, Chris G wrote:
>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.
if using procmail you could add a rule as such:
:0 fw
* ^1^ \r\n
* ? which dosunix >/dev/null 2>&1
|/usr/local/bin/dosunix
-Alex
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