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Karl Kleinpaste <karl@jprc.com> writes in ding@gnus.org:

> Phil Humpherys <phumpherys@utah-inter.net> writes in ding@gnus.org:
>>> I had text in a mail buffer, and did M-x mc-encrypt...
>>> Cannot open load file: timer

Phil, could you please (setq debug-on-error t) and get a lisp stack
backtrace?

> SL Baur <steve@xemacs.org> writes:
>> Uh oh.  This isn't Gnus-related.  Get the mailcrypt folks to use
>> itimers instead of timers in XEmacs.

> mailcrypt 3.5b5 comes with its own timer package, as FSF-timer.el,
> which the install procedure puts into place as timer.el.  So if the
> install is done normally, the timer.el problem is already covered.

O.K.  I've taken a look at the code.  I believe the problem is that
the FSF-timer.el in mailcrypt shouldn't be installed.  It is expecting 
to be able to run a program called `timer' in the background.

The new mailcrypt appears to be coded as correctly as the old mailcrypt
wrt timers.  The code first looks for itimer, and if it doesn't find
it, falls back to timer.  I know that code works in both emacsen and
it doesn't appear to have changed.