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getting rid of "Mail" message in mode line

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From: kyle
Date: Wed, 15 May 1991 15:17
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Joe Wells writes:
 > rom@xor.Eng.Sun.COM (Circuit Group) writes:
 > 
 >    On another note: I've put some stuff into the vm-mode-hooks that
 >    nukes the "Mail" message from the mode line when I go into vm (I
 >    hate seeing the old "Mail" in the mode line --- it makes me think
 >    I've received more mail); and this works fine most of the time.
 >    Accept when I stay in vm long enough for new mail to really arrive,
 >    then I use 'g' to get the new mail, but there is now way to add
 >    a function call that would let me nuke the "Mail" in the mode
 >    line....in any case it'd be real nice if there was a hook for
 >    vm-get-new-mail or whatever it's called.
 > 
 > I keep adding a vm-after-get-mail-hook to VM each time I upgrade.  I tried
 > long ago to get Kyle to include it, but he has stubbornly refused.
 > 
 > Please, please, please, please include this hook.

Actually I have a bunch of mail about hooks filed on the TODO
heap (it stopped being a list when I couldn't see over the top of
it :->), but I haven't gone through it and made any decisions.
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Subject: getting rid of "Mail" message in mode line
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