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From: rlk@think.com (Robert Krawitz)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs,gnu.emacs,gnu.emacs.bug
Subject: Re: SENDMAIL.EL bug
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Date: 30 Oct 89 23:05:03 GMT
References: <1435@accuvax.nwu.edu>
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In-reply-to: krulwich@ils.nwu.edu (Bruce Krulwich)

In article <1435@accuvax.nwu.edu>, krulwich@ils (Bruce Krulwich) writes:
]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??

This is the right thing to do, in my opinion.
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