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From: wjc@ho5cad.ATT.COM (Bill Carpenter)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: Bug in VM 4.11
Message-ID: <WJC.89Jun8172440@ho5cad.ho5cad.ATT.COM>
Date: 8 Jun 89 16:24:40 GMT
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In-reply-to: tom@ssd.harris.com's message of 7 Jun 89 11:07:14 GMT

In article <TOM.89Jun7070714@hcx2.ssd.harris.com> tom@ssd.harris.com (Tom Horsley) writes:

> (defun rmail ....
> This provides a function that acts just like rmail only invokes VM. My
> reflexes cannot trick me into screwing up my mail now :-).

My reflexes tricked me early on, too, and rmail is pretty unforgiving
about converting those folders instantly into babyl format.  Here is
what I did to overcome it:

   (fset 'rmail 'vm)
   (fset 'rmail-input 'vm-visit-folder) ;; wjc fat finger side-effect

Same outcome, different method.
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   Bill Carpenter         att!ho5cad!wjc  or  attmail!bill