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rmail - I would suggest the following feature which I use.

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From: linus
Date: Tue, 10 Apr 1990 15:51
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I use rmail on files in a directory that contains different topics.
When I have decidet to forget all about a topic I delete the different
letters but the file 169 bytes still remains.
Here is a fix. The backup file is still undeisturbed and can be used to
get the old mail.

Maybe others could get benefit from this fix.

The rmail-expunge-and-save definition is a replacement of the one existing.


(defvar rmail-delete-empty-rmail-file nil
  "*Non-nil means delete RMAIL file instead of saving it without messages.")

(defun rmail-expunge-and-save ()
  "Expunge and save RMAIL file."
   (interactive)
   (rmail-expunge)
   (save-buffer)
   (if (and rmail-delete-empty-rmail-file
	    (= rmail-total-messages 0))
       (progn
	 (delete-file (buffer-file-name))
	 (kill-buffer (buffer-name)))))



Another thing i find comfortable is:
(define-key rmail-mode-map "b" 'scroll-down)

But this is more of my personal taste involved so you better skip that one.
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