please help with mutt

[Thomas Stivers]

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On Sat, Nov 27, 2004 at 02:23:03 PM -0500, David Bruzos wrote:
> Ok, I got it working:
> However, I think mutt has a small bug.  The problem was that I has specified in the config file (.muttrc) an alternative 
> file for my mail aliases.  The aliases were beeing put there, but it was not picking them up when I went to write a 
> message.  So, I just allowed it to put the aliases in the default location and it works!
> 
> Is this a bug that I should report?
> Or is it just the way it is supposed to work (for some strange reason)?

Nope not a bug, but the alias_file variable only comes into play when
adding aliases. If you want the aliases to be *useable* then you need
to "source" your alias file somewhere in your .muttrc with a line like:

source ~/.mutt/aliases

I think the reasoning behind this is so you can have different sets of
aliases controlled by hooks, but it sure isn't intuitive.

HTH

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Thomas Stivers	e-mail: stivers_t at tomass.dyndns.org
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