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* Adam Funk <a24061@yahoo.com>
|     $status = system('emacs', '-nw', $edit_file, '-f', ' mail-mode');
--<snip-snip>--
| and "Symbol's function definition is void: \ mail-mode" in the

Get rid of the leading space in the last argument of the system()
invocation:
' mail-mode'
=>
'mail-mode'

R'