eintr: Mail Aliases
16.5 Mail Aliases
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Here is a ‘setq’ that turns on mail aliases, along with more reminders.
;;; Mail mode
; To enter mail mode, type 'C-x m'
; To enter RMAIL (for reading mail),
; type 'M-x rmail'
(setq mail-aliases t)
This ‘setq’ command sets the value of the variable ‘mail-aliases’ to
‘t’. Since ‘t’ means true, the line says, in effect, “Yes, use mail
aliases.”
Mail aliases are convenient short names for long email addresses or
for lists of email addresses. The file where you keep your aliases is
‘~/.mailrc’. You write an alias like this:
alias geo george@foobar.wiz.edu
When you write a message to George, address it to ‘geo’; the mailer will
automatically expand ‘geo’ to the full address.
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