Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!uunet!mcsun!cernvax!chx400!bernina!flog From: flog@bernina.ethz.ch (Florian Gutzwiller) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: NeXTMail Message-ID: <1991May6.113855.1473@bernina.ethz.ch> Date: 6 May 91 11:38:55 GMT References: <487@heaven.woodside.ca.us> Organization: Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich, CH Lines: 32 glenn@heaven.woodside.ca.us (Glenn Reid) writes: >cnh5730@maraba.tamu.edu (Get a Name) writes >> > In article ersys!drin@nro.cs.athabascau.ca (Adrian >Smith) writes: >> > Why does NeXTMail put a ^M at the end of each line? >> >> It does not. I checked. >Mail.app does not put ^M on each line. However, the standard UNIX mailer >will append ^M to each line under some circumstances, after Mail.app is >through with it (after it passes through /usr/lib/sendmail). In particular, >outgoing UUCP mail always has ^M appended to every line, although they >are usually stripped by the mailer on the receiving end, at least on >most UNIX systems. >This may also be the case on outbound internet mail, but I'm not on the >internet, so I can't check. >Perhaps you were looking in /usr/spool/uucp/D.hostname at some of the >spooled mail files? You will typically see ^M characters there. Muucp, P=/usr/bin/uux, F=sDFhuCUR, S=13, R=23, M=100000, E=\n, A=uux - -r $h!rmail ($u) ^^^^ Add this to your mailer entry in /etc/sendmail/sendmail.cf. It will use newline instead of ^M. -Florian