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Xavier Maillard <xma@gnu.org> writes:
> maybe I am not the best player to speak here but why do you want
> to replace mail-mode by message-mode exactly ?

message-mode is, roughly-speaking, a superset of mail-mode, and offers
generally desirable features (good mime support in particular) that
mail-mode does not.

-Miles

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