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MH-E with any Emacsen
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   MH-E 4.x conforms to the `mail-citation-hook' interface supported by
other MUAs.  At the time of this writing, MH-E 4.0 has not been
released, but if you have it, put this in your `.emacs' file to connect
Supercite and MH-E 4.x:

     (add-hook 'mail-citation-hook 'sc-cite-original)

   Note that if you are using Emacs 18 or Epoch 4, you will not have the
`add-hook' function.  Note: Emacs 18 MUAs, for details on how to
proceed without `add-hook'.

   MH-E version 3.x uses a slightly different interface than other MUAs.
MH-E provides a hook variable `mh-yank-hooks', but it doesn't act like
a hook, and doing an `add-hook' will not work.

   To connect Supercite to MH-E 3.x, you should instead add the
following to your `.emacs' file:

     (add-hook 'mh-yank-hooks 'sc-cite-original)

   You also need to make sure that MH-E includes all the original mail
headers in the yanked message.  The variable that controls this is
`mh-yank-from-start-of-msg'.  By default, this variable has the value
`t', which tells MH-E to include all the mail headers when yanking the
original message.  Before you switched to using Supercite, you may have
set this variable to other values so as not to include the mail headers
in the yanked message.  Since Supercite requires these headers (and
cleans them out for you), you need to make sure the value is `t'.  This
lisp, in your `.emacs' file will do the trick:

     (setq mh-yank-from-start-of-msg t)

   Note that versions of MH-E before 3.7 did not provide the
`mh-yank-hooks' variable.  Your only option is to upgrade to MH-E
version 3.7 or later.