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From: jr@PEBBLES.BBN.COM (John Robinson)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: automatic summary mode
Message-ID: <12786.580075946@pebbles>
Date: 19 May 88 20:12:26 GMT
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> One method I have seen (though it seems crude...) is to 

> Or maybe this is grotesque enough that someone will be forced to post
> the right solution out of sheer revulsion. :-)

Well, now that we are talking revolting and crude, there is always the
route of adding to rmail.el the configuration defvar:

  (defvar rmail-start-in-summary-mode nil
    "If non nil, rmail will start up in summary mode.")

together with the appropriate stuff in (rmail) or wherever.

/jr
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