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

[Matthew Paul Thomas]

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jfprevost at bluewin.ch wrote on 21/01/15 23:17:
> ...
> 
> 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.
> 
> ...

Bugs are best reported by someone who is willing and able to reproduce
them.

I suggest you get a Launchpad account, <https://launchpad.net/+login>
then report the bug yourself. You can do this starting from a
terminal, by entering "ubuntu-bug mailutils" (without quotes).

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