On Wed, Oct 17, 2018 at 10:32:04AM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote:
> * Stefan Monnier:
> 
> >> (defun fw/get-new-mail ()

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> I see.  Further questions: How can I restore the window configuration
> after the process terminates?  Is there something similar to
> save-excursion?

save-window-excursion

> How can I make the displayed buffer to scroll to the end?

  (pop-to buffer "foo")
  (goto-char (point-max))

Don't wrap this in save-excursion :-)

Cheers
-- t