How Do I Active .mailrc Aliase?

[Steven Woody]

i found my .mailrc seems not workable. i found no message about alias or .mail
in *Message* buffer, and when i press 'a' in a mail group summary buffer and
key in something followed by SPC, nothing happend!

below is my *Messages* after startup,

Loading /home/narke/emacs/preferences/e-cache.el (source)...done
Loading e-preload (source)...done
Loading e-prefs (source)...done
Loading edmacro...done
Loading regexp-opt...done
Loading jka-compr...done
Loading delsel...done
Loading /home/narke/.recentf...done
Cleaning up the recentf list...done (0 removed)
Auto Fill enabled in Text modes
Loading e-postload (source)...done
For information about the GNU Project and its goals, type C-h C-p.
Loading gnus-agent...done
Reading /home/narke/.newsrc.eld...
Reading active file from news.gnus.org via nntp...
Reading active file from news.cn99.com via nntp...
Opening nntp server on news.cn99.com...done
Reading active file via nnml...
Opening nnml server...done
nnml: Reading incoming mail from file...
nnml: Reading incoming mail (no new mail)...done
Reading active file via nnml...done
Reading active file from archive via nnfolder...
Opening nnfolder server on archive...done
Reading active file from archive via nnfolder...done
Opening nntp server on news.gnus.org...done
Loading timezone...done
Loading parse-time...done
Opening nntp server on news.cn99.com...done
No new newsgroups
Checking new news...
Opening nndoc server on gnus-help...done
Checking new news...done
Quit
Mark saved where search started [2 times]
Retrieving newsgroup: gnu.emacs.gnus...
Loading disp-table...done
Loading gnus-ml...done
Opening nntp server on news.gnus.org...done
Fetching headers for gnu.emacs.gnus...done
Generating summary...done
Parsing /home/narke/.mailrc... done
Disable text-mode line wrap with M-x toggle-text-mode-auto-fill
Loading mail-extr...done
Using smtp-auth



what is the problem?


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narke