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In article <9004091915.AA00676@borodin.> rdh@sli.com (Robert D. Houk)
writes:

| When I edit my .mailrc file, I [empirically] have to kill emacs and
| start a new emacs for any new aliasii added to .mailrc to be noticed
| and used when sending mail. Is this a known bug, or am I [not] doing
| something silly?

I use the following in my .emacs file to automagically rebuild the
aliases file whenever I save .mailrc:

(defvar mrm-recursive-rebuild-aliases nil
  "Non-nil if within mrm-rebuild-mail-aliases.")

(defun mrm-rebuild-mail-aliases-hook ()
  "Hook to rebuild the mail aliases, whenever ~/.mailrc is stored."
  (if (and (not mrm-recursive-rebuild-aliases)
	   (string-equal buffer-file-name (expand-file-name "~/.mailrc")))
      (unwind-protect
	  (progn
	    (setq mrm-recursive-rebuild-aliases t)
	    (basic-save-buffer)
	    (build-mail-aliases)
	    (message "Mail aliases rebuilt"))
	(progn
	  (setq mrm-recursive-rebuild-aliases nil)
	  t))
    nil))

(if (not (memq 'mrm-rebuild-mail-aliases-hook write-file-hooks))
    (setq write-file-hooks (cons 'mrm-rebuild-mail-aliases-hook
				 write-file-hooks)))

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