On 18Dec2012 16:51, Jeremy Kitchen <kitc...@kitchen.io> wrote: | On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 08:23:12AM +0800, Woody Wu wrote: | > I defined serveral aliases in .mail_aliase via the 'a' commmand. And, I | > checked I had | > set alias_file=~/.mail_aliases # where I keep my aliases | > in my .muttrc. | | are you also sourcing this file in your .muttrc? You need to source it | as well.
Just to make it clear, alias_file only specifies where mutt writes new alias definitions. Mutt doesn't automatically consult that file, hence the need to source it as a separate operation. Cheers, -- Cameron Simpson <c...@zip.com.au> It must be public fact, because I'm not the only one who knows about it. - Stefan A. Werner <iczer-1!s...@uunet.uu.net>