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+From: Glyn Millington <glyn.millington@gmail.com>\r
+Subject: Re: Can't compose message in Emacs - Notmuch\r
+Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2015 23:11:23 +0000\r
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+David Bremner <david@tethera.net> writes:\r
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+> Glyn Millington <glyn.millington@gmail.com> writes:\r
+>\r
+>> Greetings!\r
+>>\r
+>> Emacs 24.4.1 (Arch Linux if that helps)\r
+>> Notmuch 0.19\r
+>>\r
+>> The problem is that I can neither compose a new email nor reply to an old\r
+>> email unless I have already used message mode (via Gnus) first.\r
+>> I get an error message - Google on the error message below gets me nowhere!\r
+>>\r
+>\r
+> Can you duplicate the error with a minimal .emacs? In particular save\r
+> the following to "run-notmuch.el" and start emacs with\r
+>\r
+> % emacs -Q --load run-emacs.el\r
+>\r
+> ;; -8x-------------------------------------------------------------\r
+> ;; adjust the following line to point to either the .el or .elc of\r
+> ;; notmuch.el\r
+>\r
+> (add-to-list 'load-path "/path/to/notmuch/dot/el")\r
+> (require 'notmuch)\r
+> (notmuch-mua-mail)\r
+>\r
+> ;; -8x-------------------------------------------------------------\r
+>\r
+> If that doesn't error, then the most likely trigger is some setting or\r
+> add on package in your .emacs. Once we know what the trigger is, we can\r
+> try to figure out where bug lies.\r
+\r
+Thanks David,\r
+\r
+It didn't error! \r
+\r
+A thorough trawl through init.el revealed that this line is the culprit\r
+\r
+(setq message-mail-user-agent t)\r
+\r
+which refers on to mail-user-agent, which was invoking gnus!\r
+\r
+\r
+Sorry for the noise. \r
+\r
+\r
+atb\r
+\r
+Glyn\r
+\r