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From: moore%cdr.utah.edu.uucp@utah-gr.UUCP (Tim Moore)
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Date: 20 May 88 05:55:26 GMT
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In article <8805191207.AA09025@mitre-bedford.ARPA> jfjr@MITRE-BEDFORD.ARPA (Freedman) writes:
>
>... I am trying to arrange things so that when I go into rmail
>I get rmail-summary. I have experimented with lall kinds of variations
>of lines in my .emacs such as
> 
> (setq rmail-mode-hook 'rmail-summary) ;gets an error "integer or nil
> (setq rmail-mode-hook '(rmail-summary)) ; same error
> (setq rmail-mode-hook '((rmail-summary))); get "wrong function
>
>  Now obviously I am missing something (this time you can't say RTFM
>folks ;) ). Enlighten me?
>

I think the problem is that rmail-summary depends on some of rmail's
internal variables; these don't have meaningful values at the time
that hooks are run. Therefore, rmail-summary isn't suitable to run as
a hook. Putting the following in your .emacs file will do what you
want:

(defun mymail ()
  "Runs rmail and rmail-summary."
  (interactive)
  (rmail)
  (rmail-summary))

You can invoke this with M-x mymail.
  




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