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In article <74777@brunix.UUCP> sdm (Scott Meyers) writes:

> When does [GNU] emacs read my .mailrc to see my aliases?  I naively assumed
> that it read my .mailrc whenever I sent a message, but that seems to be
> false.  In particular, if I send mail, then edit my .mailrc to add a new
> alias, then send mail to the new alias, the alias is not expanded and the
> mail bounces.


This is a common problem, with a non-intuitive solution, so I've posted here
what works well for me and does exactly what Scott asks.  Just save the
modified aliases file, before you try to send mail.

At the end of your ~/.mailrc, add the following lines beginning with '#':

#
# Do not remove these comments!
#
# Local Variables:
# eval: (setup-mailrc-hook)
# End:


In your ~/.emacs file, add the following code:


;; Set up so changes to ~/.mailrc aliases are always added to current Emacs
;; session.
;;
(defun mailrc-reset ()
  (message "Reset aliases variable")
  (sit-for 1)
  (setq mail-aliases t)
  nil)     ; this is rather important!

(defun setup-mailrc-hook ()
  (make-local-variable 'write-file-hooks)  ; make it have a separate value here
  (setq write-file-hooks (cons 'mailrc-reset write-file-hooks)))

;; End of code

Start Emacs and you're set.
--
Bob Weiner				   rsw@cs.brown.edu