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From: abair@oakhill.UUCP (Alan Bair)
Newsgroups: gnu.emacs
Subject: Does mail only understand 'alias' in the ~/.mailrc file?
Keywords: alias group mail .mailrc
Message-ID: <2165@turbinia.oakhill.UUCP>
Date: 26 Jun 89 22:45:42 GMT
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I have started using the Emacs mailer and was surprise today when one
of my mails was rejected by sendmail.  I thought the Emacs mail understood
aliases, since it states that it reads the .mailrs looking for them.
So as I have done with /usr/ucb/mail, I used an alias for the To: field.

Well it turns out what I thought was an alias was on a group command, so
Emacs mail just pased it along.  I have lines in my .mailrc like:

alias somebody bubba@cowtown
alias another  joebob@rodeo
group cowboys somebody another

Is this a bug that Emacs mail ignores the group statement or do I need to
change all my group to alias lines?  They do basically the same thing, but
group is a bit more descriptive.

Setup: Sun3/60 OS3.5  GNU EMACS 18.51

Alan Bair
UUCP cs.utexas.edu!oakhill!turbinia!abair