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I recently posted a query about editing one's .mailrc file and then having
emacs studiously ignore the new file...I received a whole slew of replies
(some before I even saw my own posting!) - THANKX GUYS, YOU'RE GREAT.

This is the solution I have finally adopted - inspired by Mike Meissner's
solution, and a quick perusal of the code [OK, I prolly should'a done
this first, but it was the end of a *LONG* week and I was *TIRED*]. It
is somewhat simpler than Mike's solution, and works for at least the
simple mail/edit/mail cycle that I tried...

In .emacs:

; Coerce emacs into automagically rebuilding mail aliasii when .mailrc edited 
;    Inspired by Mike Meissner (meissner@osf.org)

(defun rebuild-mail-aliases ()
  "Hook to rebuild the mail aliases, whenever ~/.mailrc is stored."
  (if (string-equal buffer-file-name (expand-file-name "~/.mailrc"))
      (progn
	(setq mail-aliases t)		;Force sendmail to [re]read .mailrc
	nil)))				;Procede normally to save the file

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


Again, thankx to all who responded (and to whom my mail replies bounced...)

					-RDH
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