Re: rmail-output

[Eli Zaretskii]

On Fri, 17 Aug 2001, Jim McCloskey wrote:

> I just upgraded a box from Debian GNU/Linux stable to testing. I'm now
> getting this error (GNU emacs 20.7.2) when I call the function
> 'rmail-output in the RMAIL environment:
> 
>   Autoloading failed to define function rmail-output
> 
> Calling the function by name and by way of its key-binding (Ctl-o)
> produce the same effect. It's available as an option in the menubar
> (under Classify) but calling it from the menu produces the same error.
> 
> `rmail-output' is defined in rmail.el.  In earlier versions of emacs,
> it was autoloaded in rmail.el by way of:
> 
>  (autoload 'rmail-output "rmailout"
>    "Append this message to Unix mail file named FILE-NAME."
>    t)
> 
> I can't find any comparable elisp in the current rmail.el

The current definition is in rmail-out.el, and it has an autload cookie, 
so Emacs should have loaded rmail-out automatically.  Perhaps your 
loaddefs is not up-to-date, or maybe some local Debian changes or your 
customizations mess this up.