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Excerpts from mail: (23-Aug-99) The "true" format of .mailrc by Jan Vroonhof
> Unfortunately mutt also doesn't remove the quotes from
>
> alias joe "Joe User <joe@pobox.net>"

Another data point for your argument: The standard `mailx' command on my
Silicon Graphics Indigo 2 with Irix 6.5.2 doesn't strip the double quotes
either. It's really quite annoying. I for one would like to see
mail-abbrevs.el changed.

Later,
Ed