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From: Kyle Jones <kyle_jones@wonderworks.com>
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Subject: Re: Can we stop emacs from asking "Your mail address?" every time?
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Per Abrahamsen writes:
 > Steven L Baur <steve@miranova.com> writes:
 > 
 > > I made one other change when enabling this function, startup.el no
 > > longer sets a default `user-mail-address' (variable) unless XEmacs is
 > > running -batch (to avoid lossage when the bytecompiler queries that
 > > variable).
 > 
 > This will break Emacs packages that assumes `user-mail-address' exist
 > as a variable.  From RMS' response, I doubt Emacs will get an
 > `user-mail-address' function.  I think he will attempt to change the
 > installation procedure to make sure `mail-host-address' is initialized
 > instead.

This is the badness we were trying to get away from.  I don't see
any way to avoid being incompatible.

