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Rob Browning <rlb@defaultvalue.org> writes:

> OK.  After thinking about it a bit more, I agree.  You're absolutely
> right that a run-time setting would be better.  However, part of the
> problem is that this policy is currently handled by the external
> movemail program, so we'd have to figue out how to allow runtime
> customization.

Maybe Emacs can offer access to the relevant system calls, so movemail
can be implemented in Lisp?  It can't be *that* hard...