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At 17:24 (UTC+0100) on Sat, 20 Dec 2003 Karl Pflästerer said:

= An unnamed person wrote:
= 
= > When starting emacs, an error is reported in *Messages*:
= 
= > Error in init file: Symbol's value as variable is void: mail-mode-map
= 
= `mail-mode-map' is defined in sendmail.el.
= 
= > The first place in .emacs where that variable occurs is:
= 
= [...]
= > My guess is that some other code is required prior to this.  After emacs 
= > is loaded and I do "M-x mail", I can evaluate it fine (in .emacs).  
= 
= > Any ideas?
= 
= Try to wrap your code in an 
= 
= (eval-after-load "sendmail"
=   '(substitute-key-definition ...
=     ))
= 

Did this, but I'm still getting an error in *Messages*, albeit a
different one:

Error in init file: Symbol's value as variable is void: mail-mode-map

You're correct, though. sendmail.el is the place where it's defined:

(defvar mail-mode-map nil)


Anything else I could try?