* Source Liu <[email protected]> [10-27-11 11:57]:
> i've recently come to a problem in alias file with the mutt
> 
> in my ~/.mutt/muttrc file i wrote  
> > set alias_file=~/.mutt/aliases 
> > source ~/.mutt/aliases
> 
> it works well, except for invoking "a" in mutt to append an alias to
> files which alway remind me ~/.mutt.alias by default.  I has to type in
> the PATH metioned above every time.
> 
> maybe i'm too careless to miss the information in manual/FAQs, did i
> forget something to configure it up

You *did* miss something, I believe :^)

from an open terminal in mutt, type the following
:                    will give you a command line at the bottome of the window
set ?alias_file      will provide the config that mutt is using

I believe that you have set your config file to an abnormal location,
~/.mutt/muttrc, and nameing convention.

Mutt looks for its configuration at:  ~/.muttrc
and the file name is:                 .muttrc

it is documented:  search for .muttrc in "man mutt"

try starting mutt from the command-line as:
  mutt -F ~/.mutt/muttrc
this should act as you expect.  
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