Good morning Predrag.

Predrag Punosevac <[email protected]> wrote:
 |[email protected] wrote:
 ..
 |>> Can anybody help me understand what am I seeing. Namely I am trying to 
 |>> send an e-mail using S-nail 14.8.12 (the last one which cleanly compiles
 |>> on OpenBSD). Actual package is 14.8.9. Ever since I upgraded to 6.1 I

I still have not found the time to back OPT_ALWAYS_UNICODE_LOCALE
(true on OpenBSD) with real functionality, iconv(3) will remain
a dependency of IMAP in v14.9 (i promised you to try hard to
reinstantiate the IMAP code).  Sorry.

 |>> noticed that if I try to use ~v in order to load my e-mail into vi from
 |>> the base for editing I have normal behaviour if the existing message is
 |>> empty but if I had started typing I see
 |>>
 |>>
 |>> ~v [LogLevel VERBOSE]
 |>> ~v [LogLevel DEBUG]
 ...
 |> It's coming from ssh.  If you type an escape sequence immediately after
 |> a newline ssh might recognize it.  Type return followed by ~? in ssh for
 |> more information.
 ...
 |> ~. will kill a stuck session.
 ...
 |> In short, type ~~v for vi when running mail in ssh.
 |
 |Works for me! I only run mail in ssh when I am away from my home to
 |bypass worning messages from my mail providers. I have never seen this
 |before. 

I (finally) set the *escape* variable to ! to avoid this (after
having been disconnected quite some times after typing ~., and
having to reload all the SSH keys):

  set escape=!

and then type !v in compose mode (it is !e or truly now F1 due to

  !:bind compose
  bind compose :kf1 !e

for me).

--steffen

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