# HG changeset patch
# User Richard M. Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
# Date 820694189 0
# Node ID d9a95968edb82867bddd39f929432b2a493f5b40
# Parent  327ff78701e0ae0a0b8e57a742e83444512c1f42
(mail-header-separator): Don't put on read-only property.

diff -r 327ff78701e0 -r d9a95968edb8 lisp/mail/sendmail.el
--- a/lisp/mail/sendmail.el	Wed Jan 03 15:05:35 1996 +0000
+++ b/lisp/mail/sendmail.el	Wed Jan 03 18:36:29 1996 +0000
@@ -67,7 +67,12 @@
 
 ;; Set up mail-header-separator for use as a category text property.
 (put 'mail-header-separator 'rear-nonsticky '(category))
-(put 'mail-header-separator 'read-only t)
+;;; This was a nice idea, for preventing accidental modification of
+;;; the separator.   But I found it also prevented or obstructed
+;;; certain deliberate operations, such as copying the separator line
+;;; up to the top to send myself a copy of an already sent outgoing message
+;;; and other things.  So I turned it off.  --rms.
+;;;(put 'mail-header-separator 'read-only t)
 
 ;;;###autoload
 (defvar mail-archive-file-name nil "\