message: Mail Aliases
2.10 Mail Aliases
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The ‘message-mail-alias-type’ variable controls what type of mail alias
expansion to use. Currently two forms are supported: ‘mailabbrev’ and
‘ecomplete’. If this variable is ‘nil’, no mail alias expansion will be
performed.
‘mailabbrev’ works by parsing the ‘/etc/mailrc’ and ‘~/.mailrc’
files. These files look like:
alias lmi "Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@ifi.uio.no>"
alias ding "ding@ifi.uio.no (ding mailing list)"
After adding lines like this to your ‘~/.mailrc’ file, you should be
able to just write ‘lmi’ in the ‘To’ or ‘Cc’ (and so on) headers and
press ‘SPC’ to expand the alias.
No expansion will be performed upon sending of the message—all
expansions have to be done explicitly.
If you’re using ‘ecomplete’, all addresses from ‘To’ and ‘Cc’ headers
will automatically be put into the ‘~/.ecompleterc’ file. When you
enter text in the ‘To’ and ‘Cc’ headers, ‘ecomplete’ will check out the
values stored there and “electrically” say what completions are
possible. To choose one of these completions, use the ‘M-n’ command to
move down to the list. Use ‘M-n’ and ‘M-p’ to move down and up the
list, and ‘RET’ to choose a completion.
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