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Hi,
  I have a relatively minor problem with VM; in other respects the
package has exceeded my expectations, and I've been very pleased with
it.
  I'd like to have my mail aliases expanded when composing a mail
message. I found the following elisp package in the "Big Brother DataBase"
tar file "BBDB.tar" which I obtained in the LCD at ftp.cis.ohio-state.edu.

;;; Abbrev-expansion of mail aliases.
;;; Copyright (C) 1985, 1986, 1987, 1992 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
;;; Created: 19 oct 90, Jamie Zawinski <jwz@lucid.com>
;;; Modified: 5 apr 92, Roland McGrath <roland@gnu.ai.mit.edu>
;;; Last change 22-apr-92. jwz

The documentation for this package states that it will expand mail
aliases by using abbrev-mode expansion when the cursor is in the To:
field, for example. Including the following in one's .emacs file:

     (setq mail-setup-hook '(lambda () (require 'mail-abbrevs)))

will supposedly load the package; it does so for *mail* buffers, but
not for the *VM-mail* buffer. Is this package incompatible with VM, or
is there an alternate way of loading it? Does VM not run the
mail-setup-hook when vm-mail-internal is invoked?

I'm fairly new to GNU emacs, so am not very comfortable hacking the
distributed lisp "sendmail.el" code (yet).

Relevant Versions:
GNU Emacs v18.58.  VM5.32(beta)  SunOS4.1.2

 Thanks,
       Mark


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