[gnu.emacs.bug] EMACS-Mail sending: .mailrc - aliases not read

kim@kannel.lut.fi (Kimmo Suominen) (11/08/89)

In article <1989Nov2.162054.26327@hellgate.utah.edu> moore%cdr.utah.edu@cs.utah.edu (Tim Moore) writes:

   In article <8911022008.AA00270@stuart.stat.washington.edu>
   maechler@STAT.WASHINGTON.EDU (Martin Maechler) writes:
   >You promised that a .mailrc file is scanned for aliases and these
   >would be translated by EMACS.
   >I am sorry that this is not the case here.
   >Can you give me any advice ?

   I can't concusively say without seeing a mail message in which alias
   substitution failed, but I suspect that you didn't seperate mail
   addresses with commas in the To: line of the outgoing message. That's
   a pretty common error.

I had that problem of not getting my aliases to work.  The problem was that I
had tabulators in the beginning of lines in my .mailrc.  When the alias def
begins in the first column, it will work just fine.

Kim
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