Here's how to use aliases in the latest mutt.

"John J. Boyer" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.redhat.blinux.general
Message-ID <20161031145155.GA11877@abilitiessoft> 
Add the line source mailaliases (or whatever your alias file is called) to muttrc. This is covered in /usr/share/doc/mut 
under reference > variables.

Hope this helps,
John

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