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Richard Burton <carlitograu@yoooooowho.com> writes:

>  (set mail-yank-prefix '>)
>
>  But it has no effect on the behavior of c-c c-y, except that it generates
> the error message "Wrong type argument: char-or-string-p."
>
>  What am I doing wrong?

You are setting the value to the symbol > istead of to a string.  try
">" instead.  You should also use `setq' instead of `set'.