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Re: Personal mail lists with gnus plus bbdb
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David Engster |
Subject: |
Re: Personal mail lists with gnus plus bbdb |
Date: |
Thu, 21 Jan 2010 18:19:26 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/23.1.50 (gnu/linux) |
Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com> writes:
> I'm getting a little confused about how to create a mailling list
> using gnus and bbdb.
>
> The directions talk as if `mail-abbrevs.el' is required to make it
> work. But I see that code is apparently not part of gnus, emacs or
> bbdb distributions. So wondering if this info in the manual is out of
> date or something.
>
> At least mail-abbrevs.el it is not on my system with gnus from cvs,
> emacs-23 and most recent bbdb installed.
It's mailabbrev.el, and is part of Emacs.
> At any rate, just adding an aliase to a few bbdb entries, saving bbdb,
> then putting the alias in the To: field seems to not have the desired
> effect, and doesn't expand with M-tab (bbdb-complete-name as is described
> in the bbdb manual
Did you put something like
(add-hook 'message-setup-hook 'bbdb-define-all-aliases)
in your .gnus?
-David