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expand-mail-aliases bug, frequently asked questions list

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From: Joe Wells
Date: Sat, 21 Jul 1990 04:02
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In article <GOW.90Jul13101253@sakari.mrceg> gow@sakari.mrceg (Ed Gow) writes:

   The function expand-mail-aliases doesn't work when there is more than
   one recipient specified on a To: line.  This is due to bad REGEXPs in
   the function for breaking out the addresses for (assoc .. ...) to
   match.

I would guess the people who wrote the code don't consider this a bug.
Following RFC822, you're supposed to separate multiple addresses with
commas.  If you put commas between the addresses, Emacs will expand all of
the aliases.

I nominate this question for the frequently asked question list for this
newsgroup.  Since no one is maintaining such a list now, I volunteer to
do it.

Send me your nominations for the FAQ list.  I'll put together a summary of
the questions to be on the list and post it by the end of next week.
Then, within 3 to 4 weeks, I'll post the complete list of questions with
answers.  Thereafter, I propose to distribute it every 2 months.

I propose that the list will cover FAQs in these groups:

    gnu.emacs
    gnu.emacs.bug
    gnu.emacs.gnus
    gnu.emacs.gnews
    gnu.emacs.vms

-- 
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Subject: expand-mail-aliases bug, frequently asked questions list
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