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Richard M Stallman wrote:

> The special first message scheme, if implemented, would provide a
> place to store this info as well as the list of keywords for
> completion.

If you were implementing this feature from scratch, you would probably
just use a customizable variable. Eg an alist where the key is the
name of the rmail file, and the values are one or more inboxes to use.