Detlev Zundel <dzu@denx.de> writes:

> As I understand the documentation, the variable
> 'display-time-mail-function' should allow to provide a function which
> decides whether to display the mail icon in the status area.
>
> Unfortunately the code does not allow this semantic, as the code uses an
> or expression over several possibilities (lisp/time.el:407):
>
>         (mail (or (and display-time-mail-function
>                        (funcall display-time-mail-function))
>                   (and display-time-mail-directory
>                        (display-time-mail-check-directory))
>                   (and (stringp mail-spool-file)
>                        (or (null display-time-server-down-time)
>                            ;; If have been down for 20 min, try again.
>                            (> (- (nth 1 now) display-time-server-down-time)
>                               1200)
>                            (and (< (nth 1 now) display-time-server-down-time)
>                                 (> (- (nth 1 now)
>                                       display-time-server-down-time)
>                                    -64336)))
>                        (let ((start-time (current-time)))
>                          (prog1
>                              (display-time-file-nonempty-p mail-spool-file)
>                            (if (> (- (nth 1 (current-time))
>                                      (nth 1 start-time))
>                                   20)
>                                ;; Record that mail file is not accessible.
>                                (setq display-time-server-down-time
>                                      (nth 1 (current-time)))
>                              ;; Record that mail file is accessible.
>                              (setq display-time-server-down-time nil)))))))
>
>
> So when display-time-mail-function is set but returns nil, then the
> following tests will still be evaluated instead of using this negative
> result.
>
> As a fix I propose the attached patch.

This patch is actually erroneous - it has a missing closing parenthesis
and an unrelated typeo.  The attached patch is tested.  Sorry for the
inconvenience.

Cheers
  Detlev

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