>>>>> On Thu, 22 Aug 2024 15:15:03 +0300, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> said:

    Eli> For backward compatibility, let's leave rmail-re-abbrevs in place, and
    Eli> just initialize it from that new defcustom.

Patch attached. Works for gnus for me, and manual testing of the rmail
regexp works. Did you want me to obsolote the rmail and message
variables as well?

Robert
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