From: Richard M. Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
Date: Wed, 3 Jan 1996 18:36:29 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: (mail-header-separator): Don't put on read-only property.
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(mail-header-separator): Don't put on read-only property.
---

diff --git a/lisp/mail/sendmail.el b/lisp/mail/sendmail.el
index a5fdc8d5d47..1c3b2dbc150 100644
--- a/lisp/mail/sendmail.el
+++ b/lisp/mail/sendmail.el
@@ -67,7 +67,12 @@ match the variable `mail-header-separator'.")
 
 ;; 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 "\