please help with mutt

[Janina Sajka]

You can also issue the :source [filename] command from within a mutt
session in order to provide your newly added alias to the currently open
mutt session. Else, it won't be available until you next open mutt.

Thomas Stivers writes:
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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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				Janina Sajka, Chair
				Accessibility Workgroup
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