Re: Mutt's alias file

[Wayne Topa <wtopa@dmcom.net>]

	Subject: Mutt's alias file
	Date: Fri, Oct 13, 2000 at 06:24:55AM -0400

In reply to:Cancer Omega

Quoting Cancer Omega(kint@videotron.ca):
> I have the following in my .muttrc :
> set alias_file=~/.mail_aliases
> 
> and the following in my ~/.mail_aliases :
> alias debian-user Debian User List <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
> 
> Now, when I fire up Mutt and send an email to "debian-user", exim sends it right back to me, complaining that the local user "debian-user" doesn't exist.
> 
> What am I doing wrong ?

>From the above, nothing, it looks correct.  Here is what your
header looks like on _this mail_

"
From: Glyn Millington <glyn@mill29.fsnet.co.uk>
To: guran remberg <guran@nr1.nu>
Cc: Debian List <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Subject: Re: debian -newcomerII
Message-ID: <20001013132934.C3174@mill29.fsnet.co.uk>
Reply-To: Glyn Millington <glyn@mill29.fsnet.co.uk>
References: <39E6F5A4.7822C84C@nr1.nu>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Disposition: inline
User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
"

I don't see anything wrong with mutt.  Except that you should wrap your
test at about 72 characters.  I would look into whats going on with
exim.

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