[gnu.emacs] multiple aliases on To: line in mail

lynn@rave.phx.mcd.mot.com (Lynn D. Newton) (06/06/89)

Sorry if this has been discussed before. I figure I'm doing
something wrong ...

For reference, I'm using GNU Emacs 18.54 on a Motorola 68030
Unix machine.

It is my understanding that GNU's mail understands mailx's .mailrc
aliases. If my .mailrc has two lines, e.g.:

alias joe sys1!sys2!joe
alias fred sys3!sys4!fred

and I execute the mail command and say simply:

To: joe

(or To: fred) the mail goes out fine.

However, if I say:

To: joe fred

it gets bounced back to me with "invalid recipient" messages for
each of joe and fred followed by a "command failed /bin/lmail
'joe' 'fred'" type of message.

I'm sure I'm not the first to have had this problem or else I'm
doing something dumb. What gives?

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