Re: How to pipe text or load a file directly into mail-mode?

[Ralf Fassel]

* Adam Funk <a24061@yahoo.com>
| Any idea why the expand-mail-aliases command isn't available when
| emacs opens the file and goes into mail-mode?

My emacs online manual contains the following under 'Mail Aliases':

    Normally, Emacs expands aliases when you send the message.  You do
    not need to expand mail aliases before sending the message, but
    you can expand them if you want to see where the mail will
    actually go.  To do this, use the command `M-x
    expand-mail-aliases'; it expands all mail aliases currently
    present in the mail headers that hold addresses.

    If you like, you can have mail aliases expand as abbrevs, as soon
    as you type them in (*note Abbrevs::).  To enable this feature,
    execute the following:
      (add-hook 'mail-mode-hook 'mail-abbrevs-setup)

Or do you mean you get 'no-such-command' when trying
M-x expand-mail-aliases?

R'