🚀 go-pugleaf

Just a suggestion to help people write mail filters using rmail ... after
much playing around, it seems as though the best place to call filter
functions is from (rmail-get-new-mail) for two main reasons:

* rmail-show-message-hook can't really use (rmail-output-to{-rmail}-file)
  as the latter calls (rmail-show-message) and you get into a horrible
  recursive mess.

* rmail-mode-hook runs before useful variables are set (mesage counts etc.)
  and also only runs once. It also doesn't run when using `g' in rmail.

So, how about a new hook called 'rmail-new-mail-hook ? Replacing the last
line of (rmail-get-new-mail) with

    (progn
      (rmail-show-message)
      (run-hooks 'rmail-new-mail-hook))))

works fine. I can now set this new hook and save and delete mail to
arbitrary folders based on their contents (rmail-output-file-alist is
already there to help do this) every time I either enter rmail or type `g'
in rmail. Very useful.

					p

=                  Phil Kime (philkime@cogsci.ed.ac.uk)               =
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=             Centre for Cognitive Science/Dept of Philosophy         =
=                         Edinburgh University                        =