Re: Add alias during session
On Sun, Feb 04, 2007 at 11:41:15PM -0800, William Yardley wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 04, 2007 at 11:06:52PM +0100, Christian Ebert wrote:
> > * Jing Xue on Sunday, February 04, 2007 at 12:16:11 -0500:
>
> > > I know 'a' adds an alias for the current sender, but is there any other
> > > more generic way to add alias _and_ make it effective immediately?
> >
> > :source aliasfile
> >
> > after adding the alias.
>
> Maybe I'm on crack, but I already don't have to source the alias file
> for a new alias to work - after adding it with "a", it Just Works.
Those added with "a" don't have to be sourced. But "a" only adds the
sender's address. The only way to add an arbitrary alias seems to be to
edit the alias file directly - and then to make it effective, as
Christian pointed out (would have been obvious had I RTFM ;-)), the alias
file would have to be sourced.
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Jing Xue