message: Compatibility

 
 4 Compatibility
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 Message uses virtually only its own variables—older ‘mail-’ variables
 aren’t consulted.  To force Message to take those variables into
 account, you can put the following in your ‘.emacs’ file:
 
      (require 'messcompat)
 
    This will initialize many Message variables from the values in the
 corresponding mail variables.