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From: rich@kappa.Rice.EDU (Richard Murphey)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: .mailrc out of date
Message-ID: <2849@kalliope.rice.edu>
Date: 15 Mar 89 06:12:47 GMT
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In atricle 3749 of comp.emacs Jak Kirman writes:
   Forgive me if this has been asked before, but wouldn't it be reasonable
   for emacs to check to see if one's .mailrc has changed since
   build-mail-aliases was last run before sending mail?  It is not uncommon
   for me to change my .mailrc and then send to a new or modified alias; if
   I forget to run build-mail-aliases inbetween, the old alias is used.


 
You can easily add a comment line on the end of your .mailrc containing 	(build-mail-aliases), move the cursor to it after editing a new alias
and do M-x eval-last-sexp. This is even easier if eval-last-sexp is 
lready bound to a handy key sequence, such as C-x C-e.

The tail of your .mailrc might look like:
  
alias	keith	keith-cooper
alias	don	don-schroeder
#		(build-mail-aliases)


Enjoy!
Rich Murphey
Electrical Engineering
Rice University