[VM] Specifying coding system for Imap.cache files

[blueman]

When running vm on a Windows machine, I typically add
( "^C:/myhome/mail/" 'raw-text-unix) to the alist file-coding-system-alist since I want to keep all my mail files in the unix file system coding without the annoying carriage returns (^M) at the end of each line.

However, this doesn't seem to be working for the imap-cache folders even though they are stored in the same mail heirarchy...

Unfortunately, these ^M characters then seem to sometimes generate an error when reading imap mail since the coding system gets messed up.

So, is there any way to get the imap-cache files to respect the file
coding system that I am setting for their directory? i.e., is there a way to specify the coding system that vm uses to write to an imap-cache file?

Thanks

[Uday S Reddy]

When running vm on a Windows machine, I typically add ( "^C:/myhome/mail/"
'raw-text-unix) to the alist file-coding-system-alist since I want to keep
all my mail files in the unix file system coding without the annoying
carriage returns (^M) at the end of each line.
However, this doesn't seem to be working for the imap-cache folders even
though they are stored in the same mail heirarchy...

First of all, VM doesn't set line ending formats. Emacs does.

Secondly, the variable file-coding-system-alist, according to its
documentation, sets the coding system for *reading* files, not writing them.
So, it is a bad idea to set line-ending format there (or even one single
coding system for all types of files).