From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/13748 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Joe Fineman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Frustrating behavior wrt .mailrc Date: Sat, 06 Mar 2010 17:46:41 -0500 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1273017919 13681 80.91.229.12 (5 May 2010 00:05:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 5 May 2010 00:05:19 +0000 (UTC) To: info-gnus-english@gnu.org Original-X-From: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed May 05 02:05:18 2010 connect(): No such file or directory Return-path: Envelope-to: gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1O9S6z-0007cv-SY for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Wed, 05 May 2010 02:05:14 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:40163 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1O9S6z-0006MM-D6 for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Tue, 04 May 2010 20:05:13 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!proxad.net!feeder1-2.proxad.net!feeder.erje.net!feeder.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.gnus Original-Lines: 15 Injection-Date: Sat, 6 Mar 2010 22:46:49 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: feeder.eternal-september.org; posting-host="AOLrlnal4zxRJUqQMnuT5w"; logging-data="4058"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18XgRDkp5BVt8vRvXD3jUvi" User-Agent: Gnus/5.101 (Gnus v5.10.10) Emacs/22.3 (windows-nt) Cancel-Lock: sha1:0DTQ4ftlMR0SG2WSCoM4mFf1Hv4= sha1:zcapzx88Ig+XP9W7f2VcpEIdHKU= Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.gnus:84102 X-BeenThere: info-gnus-english@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Announcements and discussions for GNUS, the GNU Emacs Usenet newsreader \(in English\)" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.user:13748 Archived-At: I run Gnus v5.10.10 under Emacs 22.3.2 under Windows XP, for my many sins. My ~/.mailrc file defines a certain alias "fa" for an email address. When I actually use that alias in sending mail, it instead brings up an email address belonging to "fa" in a long-gone .mailrc file. There are no other .mailrc files in my system. Is there any way to get rid of this pest? Neither restarting Emacs nor rebooting Windows does it. -- --- Joe Fineman joe_f@verizon.net ||: Only a unique solution need have all the symmetries of the :|| ||: problem. :||