Re: aliases doesn't work

[Michael Tatge <Michael.Tatge@xxxxxx>]

* On Fri, Apr 30, 2004 Jay Daniels (drs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) muttered:
> I save an alias by hitting "a" and entering the info.
> 
> but when I try to send mail using To: aliasname it doesn't work and
> tries to send mail to aliasname@localhost.
> 
> Now I also have my .aliases file .mutt/.aliases which mutt recognizes
> and saves my alias enter in this file.

Did you source it? You have do both set alias_file _and_ source that
file in your muttrc.

HTH,

Michael
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