File: mailalias.el.html

Basic functions for defining and expanding mail aliases.

These seal off the interface to the alias-definition parts of a
.mailrc file formatted for BSD's Mail or USL's mailx.

Defined variables (13)

mail-complete-alistAlist of header field and expression to return alist for completion.
mail-complete-functionFunction to call when completing outside ‘mail-complete-alist’-header.
mail-complete-styleSpecifies how M-x mail-complete formats the full name when it completes.
mail-directory-functionFunction to get completions from directory service or nil for none.
mail-directory-namesAlist of mail address directory entries.
mail-directory-parserHow to interpret the output of ‘mail-directory-function’.
mail-directory-processShell command to get the list of names from a mail directory.
mail-directory-requeryWhen non-nil call ‘mail-directory-function’ for each completion.
mail-directory-streamList of (HOST SERVICE) for stream connection to mail directory.
mail-local-namesAlist of local users.
mail-namesAlist of local users, aliases and directory entries as available.
mail-passwd-commandShell command to retrieve text to add to ‘/etc/passwd’, or nil.
mail-passwd-filesList of files from which to determine valid user names.

Defined functions (11)

build-mail-aliases(&optional FILE)
define-mail-alias(NAME DEFINITION &optional FROM-MAILRC-FILE)
expand-mail-aliases(BEG END &optional EXCLUDE)
mail-complete(ARG)
mail-completion-at-point-function()
mail-completion-expand(TABLE)
mail-directory(PREFIX)
mail-directory-process(PREFIX)
mail-directory-stream(PREFIX)
mail-get-names(PREFIX)
mail-sentto-newsgroups()

Defined faces (0)