On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 03:00:51PM -0400, blee2@tampabay.rr.com wrote:
> I use mutt for reading email, screen for portability and connect to home via SSH using PuTTY.
>
> I've been encountering a problem for a while where certain emails mangle
> the display and require a redraw. This involves incorrectly positioned
> blocks of characters, the " " and apparent linefeeds.
>
> It seems to be these emails are coming from my friends at yahoo.com.
>
> It's not an issue when using a local xterm at home, only remote putty
> sessions.
> I kinda think there's a PuTTY setting I can tweak to fix this behavior.
>
> Has anyone else encountered it and/or have ideas on how to fix it?
> Another mail reader is not an option. :-)
mutt FTW! ;-}
I suspect that the terminal emulation you're running in at home is not
the same as that at work under PuTTY. Do echo $TERM at home and the same
under PuTTY. Presumably, you can adjust the terminal emulation under
PuTTY.
Paul
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