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From: krulwich@ils.nwu.edu (Bruce Krulwich)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs,gnu.emacs,gnu.emacs.bug
Subject: SENDMAIL.EL bug
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Date: 30 Oct 89 17:21:18 GMT
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Reply-To: krulwich@ils.nwu.edu (Bruce Krulwich)
Organization: Institute for the Learning Sciences, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60201
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In RMAIL buffers are maintained for mail files after RMAIL is quitted, and
they are kept around READ-ONLY.  Two mail components use them if they exist,
one being the RMAIL-OUTPUT-TO-MAIL-FILE command and the other being the
MAIL-DO-FCC command.  The first makes sure to turn off the read-only status
before writing to the buffer, the second does not.  This means that if you
have a default FCC mailbox (ie, a MAIL-ARCHIVE-FILE-NAME) you'll get an error
("file is write protected) if you've visitted the mailbox previously.

The obvious fix is to do what OUTPUT does, namely to temporarily
un-read-only-ify the buffer while writing to it (by binding BUFFER-READ-ONLY
to NIL).  Does anyone see any problems with doing this??


Bruce Krulwich
Institute for the Learning Sciences
krulwich@ils.nwu.edu