mail binary from mailutils package 1:2.99.98-1.4 doesn't expand aliases

[jfprevost at bluewin.ch]

Hello,

This bug has been filed in 2004 in the debian bugtracker, but apparently closed by the maintainer
as he couldn't reproduce it.
I confirm that on my Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 64bits, the aliases declared in my home folder's .mailrc
are not expanding.
For example, if I declared a line "alias jfp j.f.prevost at free.fr" then when using the "mail jfp" comFor example, when declaring a "alias jfp j.f.prevost at free.fr" statement in my .mailrc file
then when calling "mail -s TEST jfp" then the mail is sent with jfp at localmachinename 
(localmachinename being my linux system's local host name) which is not correct and should not
be.
Please (re)open a bug for this case until it gets *really* fixed.

Thanking you in advance.

Regards,

Jean-François Prévost.