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From: jromine@buckaroo.ics.uci.edu (John Romine)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.mh
Subject: Re: Aliases and MhMail
Keywords: MH 6.7.1 and Mhmail
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Date: 19 Dec 90 01:14:02 GMT
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jhon@dubhe.gsfc.nasa.gov (Honce. Jhon) writes:
>
>[I use]:
>	mhmail `ali -normalize alias` <file
>I want:
>	mhmail alias <file

You can't do that.  "mhmail" doesn't read your .mh_profile, so it
doesn't know where to look for alias files.  Don't ask me to make
it read the profile; mhmail is intended as a replacement for /bin/mail,
and not all users may have an MH profile.

Backquoting "ali" is the right solution, if you want to do this.
--
John Romine