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From: rustcat@csli.Stanford.EDU (Vallury Prabhakar)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Mail notification in modeline
Message-ID: <9233@csli.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 1 Jun 89 20:30:56 GMT
Sender: rustcat@csli.Stanford.EDU (Vallury Prabhakar)
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Why does the mail notification in the mode-line remain even after I've read
my mail?  I usually do this by ^Z-ing out of Gnuemacs.  (I know I can use
rmail instead of mail, but mail seems to be quicker for small messages.)

Is there way of eliminating this feature/bug?  I tried an apropos on 
mode-line and mail, but wasn't able to find anything that seemed very
appropriate.

Oh and another thing.  My RMAIL file is *very* big right now.  Before 
embarking on some e-lisp programming, I wanted to find out if someone
had worked on this problem?  The solution that immediately comes to mind
is to make rmail read-in and write-out a compressed RMAIL file.  Opinions
and/or suggestions?

Gnuemacs version 18.52 on a Sun.  Thanks.

							-- Vallury Prabhakar