Recursive mail alias

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From: Ken-Huang Lin
Date: Thu, 09 May 1991 07:15

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Emacs claims that it would scan the ~/.mailrc for mail aliases.
However, the aliases expansion is not recursive. For example, if I
have the following lines in .mailrc

alias foo1 f1@a1
alias foo2 f2@a2
alias foo foo1 foo2

Emacs won't expand "foo" into "f1@a1 f2@a2" (BSD mail will). How can I
instruct Emacs to expand recursively?

thanks in advance,

Ken H. Lin
khlin@uiwpl.ece.uiuc.edu

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Subject: Recursive mail alias
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