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From: Neal Becker <neal@ctd.comsat.com>
Date: 07 Apr 1997 15:31:22 -0400
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For some reason this isn't working for me, I don't see why.  I have
this in .emacs:

(custom-set-variables
 '(nnmail-split-methods (quote (("mail.tm" "^To:[ ]*tm\\|^Cc:[ ]*tm") ("mail.xemacs" "^To:.*xemacs\\|^Cc:.*xemacs") ("mail.teTeX" "^To.*tetex\\|^Cc:.*tetex") ("mail.amanda" "^To.*amanda\\|^Cc:.*amanda") ("mail.ptolemy" "^To.*ptolemy\\|^Cc:.*ptolemy") ("mail.exim" "^To.*exim\\|^Cc:.*exim") ("mail.amd" "^To.*amd\\|^Cc:.*amd") ("mail.bissnet" "^To.*bissnet\\|^Cc:.*bissnet") ("mail.cellular" "^To.*cellular\\|^Cc:.*cellular") ("mail.dc-linux" "^To.*dc-linux\\|^Cc:.*dc-linux") ("mail.exim" "^To.*exim\\|^Cc:.*exim") ("mail.eps" "^Subject.*eps") ("mail.libgr" "^Subject.*libgr") ("mail.rdist" "^To.*rdist\\|^Cc:.*rdist") ("mail.personal" "^To.*[nN]eal") ("mail.bash" "^To.*bash-testers") ("mail.antlr" "^To.*antlr") ("mail.w3" "^To.*w3-beta") ("mail.pdftex" "^To.*pdftex") ("mail.kernel" "^To.*linux-kernel\\|^Cc.*linux-kernel") ("mail.pam" "^To.*pam") ("mail.misc" ""))))
 '(display-time-mail-balloon-show-gnus-group t)
 '(signal-error-on-buffer-boundary nil t)
 '(gnus-total-expirable-newsgroups "mail.*"))

But after starting up xemacs, C-h v says:

display-time-mail-balloon-show-gnus-group's value is nil
  -- a variable declared in Lisp.
[...]

What's wrong?  No error was signalled in startup.  I have commented
out the load of .xemacs-options, so that can't be doing anything.  The 
setting of gnus-total-expirable-newsgroups "mail.*" IS working.

