Re: Basic(?) Aliasing

[Bodo Moeller]

On Wed, Apr 19, 2000 at 06:25:58PM +0200, Steffan Hoeke wrote:

> some of the adresses have the form 
>       "My name" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> others, on the other hand have
>       my other name <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> 
> The strange thing is, in my mutt.alias the're all of the form
> alias aliasname       "my name"       <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>               ^       ^ allways the quotes ...

The quotes are necessary when the string contains special characters
such as . or @.  Usually the quotes can be omitted, and are.