Re: [PLUG] Using distribution lists in abook with mutt - SOLVED

[Mike Leone <turgon@mike-leone.com>]

Craig Pearlman wrote:
> --- Mike Leone <turgon@mike-leone.com> wrote:
> > Eric wrote:
> > > Back when I used Mutt (having devolved to KMail) I edited my .mutt-alias
> > file
> > > to include items like this:
> > >
> > > alias DEBATE <debater1@yahoo.com>, <debater2@comcast.net>,
> > <debater3@hotmail.com>, etc
> > > and it worked like a charm.  Have you tried this?
> > Yep. Doesn't work for outgoing. No alias does, actually, that I can see. 
> > mutt just seems to hand it off to the MTA with the alias name (no 
> > replacement of DEBATE with the addresses, to use your example). It tries 
> > to send it out as "DaGuys@localhost".
>
> My mutt man page says that these things go in .muttrc now (though I think
> it's configurable; I didn't read it *that* closely).
>
> Did a quick test; set up "alias test addr1, addr2". If I put "test" in the To
> line, I got both of the addresses from the alias, not the word "test".
>
> Using mutt 1.5.11.

I have this, in my muttrc:

source ~/mutt-aliases

In mutt-aliases, I have:

alias me Mike Leone <oozerdude@gmail.com>

If I send an email to "me", I get a bounce back that "me@localhost" is 
an unknown addess ...

This is the Postfix program at host mail.mike-leone.com.
<snip>

<me@localhost>: unknown user: "me"

....

UPDATE: ... apparently, I wasn't sourcing the aliases properly, since 
this test *did* just work, when the test above (that I did Friday) did 
not. I don't remember if I deleted the original line and recreated it or 
not.

And I wasn't properly separating the multiple addresses, because that, 
too, is now working.

As usual, it was user error, combined with user misunderstanding, that 
caused it all. Thanks everyone. :-)
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