Re: Recognize mbox files?

[Stefan Monnier <monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA>]

> What is wrong with using real local variables?  Either by adding it to
> the first message, or always adding "-*- rmail -*-" to X-RMAIL-...?
> That way a user could disable rmail explictly for a file, or enable it
> by adding -*- rmail -*- to it.  This would then work exactly as it did
> for RMAIL/BABYL.  Without adding specifc rmail hacks to other parts of
> emacs.

That's my idea as well: try to use the -*-rmail-*- tag.
It might even be possible to place it on the first ("From ") line.
It probably means to lose/garble that first line's info, so we may want
to first copy that info into an "Envelope-From:" header.

Another issue is to make sure those files get opened into a unibyte
buffer (i.e. use a `binary' coding-system).  So maybe the tag should
really be -*-mode:rmail;coding:binary-*-.


        Stefan