On 1 Apr 2003, Reiner Steib wrote:

> Therefore, I suggest to change the *default* value of
> `message-generate-headers-first' to '(references) as a workaround.

Agreed.

> Opinions?  A proper solution would be to force writing the
> `References:' even if `message-generate-headers-first' is nil somehow.

IMHO, a proper solution is to dump all the buffer-local varibables (for
the message buffer) in another file (so it gets autosaved). Say
drafts/env/42 or drafts/drafts/42-env, where 42 is the number, same as
in drafts/drafts.

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