I don't believe subscribe matches against the expansion of aliases
as you appear to be relying on.  Instead, subscribe matches on a
pattern.  When you specify vim, that pattern is matched by [EMAIL PROTECTED],
but muttusers does not match [EMAIL PROTECTED]  Try altering your
subscribe command to look more like the actual email address, instead of
the alias name.

On Tue, Oct 03, 2000 at 10:50:11PM +1100, raf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> my ~/.muttrc contains:
> -----------------------------------------------
> subscribe vim vimdev psst ipchains ipmasq muttuser muttdev netfilter netfilterdev
> 
> alias vim                     [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> alias vimdev          [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> alias psst                    [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> alias ipchains                [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> alias ipmasq          [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> alias muttusers               [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> alias muttdev         [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> alias netfilter               [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> alias netfilterdev    [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 
> -----------------------------------------------
> 
> when i receive mail containing the following snippets,
> 'L' does not work. it says "No mailing lists found!"
> 
> -------
> To: Mutt User List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> -------
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> -------
> To: Mutt Developers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> -------
> To: Jean-Pierre Radley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Cc: Mutt Developers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> -------
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> -------
> 
> when i receive mail containing the following snippets,
> 'L' does work.
> 
> -------
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> -------
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> -------
> To: Zdenek Sekera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Cc: vim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> -------
> To: Vim-dev List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> -------
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> -------
> To: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> -------
> To: LSH Mailing list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> -------
> 
> sometimes the 'L' command works for me. sometimes it doesn't.
> does anyone know how i can solve this? (mutt version <= 1.2.5)
> 
> raf
> 

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