(build-mail-aliases): Don't allow

a newline in the alias name.  Don't define an alias
if the definition would be empty.

diff --git a/lisp/mail/mailalias.el b/lisp/mail/mailalias.el
index fec940c..f40c460 100644 (file)
--- a/lisp/mail/mailalias.el
+++ b/lisp/mail/mailalias.el
@@ -282,14 +282,14 @@ By default, this is the file specified by `mail-personal-alias-file'."
                  (t (setq file nil))))
          (goto-char (point-min))
          (while (re-search-forward
-                 "^\\(a\\|alias\\|g\\|group\\)[ \t]+\\([^ \t]+\\)" nil t)
+                 "^\\(a\\|alias\\|g\\|group\\)[ \t]+\\([^ \t\n]+\\)" nil t)
            (let* ((name (match-string 2))
-                  (start (progn (skip-chars-forward " \t") (point))))
+                  (start (progn (skip-chars-forward " \t") (point)))
+                  value)
              (end-of-line)
-             (define-mail-alias
-               name
-               (buffer-substring-no-properties start (point))
-               t)))
+             (setq value (buffer-substring-no-properties start (point)))
+             (unless (equal value "")
+               (define-mail-alias name value t))))
          mail-aliases)
       (if buffer (kill-buffer buffer))
       (set-buffer obuf))))