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From: meissner@osf.org
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Subject: Re: RMAIL does something I don't understand...
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Date: 5 Feb 91 20:11:27 GMT
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| From: manderso@mpr.ca (Mark Anderson)
| Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help
| Date: 5 Feb 91 02:08:46 GMT
| Reply-To: manderso@mprgate.mpr.ca (Mark Anderson)
| Organization: MPR Teltech Ltd., Burnaby, B.C., Canada
| 
| In article <6356@spdcc.SPDCC.COM> bondc@spdcc.COM (Asmodeus) writes:
| >Ayup, that's it.  Doesn't work.
| 
| Aliases from the .mailrc file are stored in Emacs in the variable
| mail-aliases.  I suspect that changes to .mailrc after RMAIL reads it
| the first time are not reflected in the variable.  You can force Emacs
| to read the .mailrc by setting mail-aliases to 't.

Or you can add the following to your .emacs file, and any time you
save .mailrc, it will reset mail-aliases automatically.

(defvar mrm-recursive-rebuild-aliases nil
  "Non-nil if within mrm-rebuild-mail-aliases.")

(defun mrm-rebuild-mail-aliases-hook ()
  "Hook to rebuild the mail aliases, whenever ~/.mailrc is stored."
  (if (and (not mrm-recursive-rebuild-aliases)
	   (string-equal buffer-file-name (expand-file-name "~/.mailrc")))
      (unwind-protect
	  (progn
	    (setq mrm-recursive-rebuild-aliases t)
	    (basic-save-buffer)
	    (setq mail-aliases t)
	    (message "Mail will be rebuilt the next time mail is sent"))
	(progn
	  (setq mrm-recursive-rebuild-aliases nil)
	  t))
    nil))


(if (not (memq 'mrm-rebuild-mail-aliases-hook write-file-hooks))
    (setq write-file-hooks (cons 'mrm-rebuild-mail-aliases-hook write-file-hooks)))

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