what I do is press a in mutt, follow all the prompts and let it add an alias that way. then when I go to send a message to say speakup I just type speakup in the to: field and it works fine. On Sat, Nov 27, 2004 at 12:22:50PM -0500, David Bruzos wrote: > Hello all: > I have been using mutt for a while and I love it, but there is something I can not figure out how to do. It is > something kind of stupid so, please don't laugh! > I know how to put new aliases in my mail aliases file for mutt, but I don't know how to use them. For example, I have > the speakup at braille.uwo.ca address in there with speakup as the nickname, but if I just put "speakup" in the "to:" field > when I send mail, it gets sent to speakup at localhost. > > How do I tell mutt that I am putting a mail alias in the "to:' field? > > Am I thinking of this entire thing the wrong way? > > Thank you! > > David B. > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- .. I used to get in more fights with SCO than I did my girlfriend, but now, thanks to Linux, she has more than happily accepted her place back at number one antagonist in my life.. -- Jason Stiefel, krypto at s30.nmex.com