Tom, > 2. If mutt is launching Emacs, you can pass --eval "(setq > enable-local-eval nil)" on the command line and all file local > variables will be ignored and treated as plain text.
maybe that is one thing that could really help here. possibly mutt and other emacs-based mail readers, when putting up a received e-mail message, should by default do just that (and, also, '(setq enable-local-variables :safe)'?). i use mh-e, and it does *not* seem to do that. but, if emacs is niche, mh-e is the niche-squared. :) cheers, Greg
