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message-mode perhaps to document more that it expects mail-header-separator

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From: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
To: Jesse Sheidlower <jester <at> panix.com>
Cc: 7987 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#7987: 23.2; Refill error in message-mode
Date: Tue, 08 Feb 2011 14:16:32 -0500

Jesse Sheidlower wrote:

> The EmacsWiki page on MuttInEmacs does give a code sample (apparently
> problematic, as there are various kludgy-looking updates) that 'sets
> mail-header-separator to "" for M-q and auto-fill to work correctly', so

I'd probably have tried that.

> I'll experiment further and will update if necessary. Is there a
> preferred way to tell message-mode to assume that the buffer is a
> message body, rather than a header?

For filling, you can in a mode hook change the value of
fill-paragraph-function to something appropriate. The default is
message-fill-paragraph, which checks for headers as you can see.
I have no idea what other pieces of message-mode rely on the presence of
mail-header-separator though.

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