Once long long ago, I had BBDB and VM set up so that dave<space> in the To: field of a would expand to my brothers BBDB mail-alias. Here's his BBDB entry: David Kellogg - net: [EMAIL PROTECTED] mail-alias: dave I run bbdb-define-all-aliases from my .emacs file, but when I ask about mail-aliases, I get the response: mail-aliases's value is nil What am I missing to get the aliases done properly? My .emacs includes: (add-hook 'mail-setup-hook '(lambda () (require 'mail-abbrevs) (bbdb-define-all-aliases) (bbdb-insinuate-sendmail))) vm-version's value is "5.66 (beta)" bbdb-version's value is "1.50; 18-feb-94."