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Mail Aliases
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   The `message-mail-alias-type' variable controls what type of mail
alias expansion to use.  Currently only one form is supported--Message
uses `mailabbrev' to handle mail aliases.  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.