* lisp/mail/rmail.el (rmail-no-mail-p): Remove mode-line N/M indicator.

2 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/lisp/ChangeLog b/lisp/ChangeLog
index 676c0c6b180..ea27df043f0 100644
--- a/lisp/ChangeLog
+++ b/lisp/ChangeLog
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 2011-11-14  Glenn Morris  <rgm@gnu.org>
 
+        * mail/rmail.el (rmail-no-mail-p): Remove mode-line N/M indicator.
+
         * mail/rmailsum.el (rmail-summary, rmail-new-summary)
         (rmail-new-summary-1): Allow empty summaries.  (Bug#9964)
         (rmail-new-summary): Remember that rmail-summary-buffer is buffer-local.
diff --git a/lisp/mail/rmail.el b/lisp/mail/rmail.el
index 4b3441a8cdc..76c9b87f881 100644
--- a/lisp/mail/rmail.el
+++ b/lisp/mail/rmail.el
@@ -2602,6 +2602,8 @@ Ask the user whether to add that list name to `mail-mailing-lists'."
   "Return nil if there is mail, else \"No mail.\"."
   (if (zerop rmail-total-messages)
       (save-excursion
+        ;; Eg we deleted all the messages, so remove the old N/M mark.
+        (with-current-buffer rmail-buffer (setq mode-line-process nil))
         (with-current-buffer rmail-view-buffer
           (erase-buffer)
           "No mail."))))