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Re: Personal mail lists with gnus plus bbdb
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Adrian Lanz |
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Re: Personal mail lists with gnus plus bbdb |
Date: |
Fri, 22 Jan 2010 09:16:55 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1.91 (gnu/linux) |
>>>>> On Thu, 21 Jan 2010 19:42:17 +0100
>>>>> Richard Riley <rileyrgdev@gmail.com> writes:
> 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 manual is out of date or something.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 appears it might be part of xemacs distro... but not sure
>> about that since I don't use xemacs
>>
>> 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
>>
>> Googling `mail-abbrevs.el... isn't even turning up somewhere to
>> download it.
>>
>> Can any one describe how they use bbdb with gnus to create
>> mailling lists?
> Do this:
> ,---- | (add-hook 'message-mode-hook (lambda () (abbrev-mode 1)))
> | ; for alias field - useful for mailing lists | ;; (add-hook
> 'message-setup-hook 'bbdb-define-all-aliases) |
> (bbdb-define-all-aliases) `----
> I do the aliases once but change the comment accordingly.
> Then just add an alias to people you want in their bbdb entries by
> pressing "a" and then adding the alias - lets say "church".
> Then when you send a mail shot out just type "church" into the
> to/Bcc field and enter to expand it to all the bbdb entries with
> the alias of "church".
Any idea, how to get alias completion? Typing "chur" into the To/Bcc
field and pressing the tab key would expand "chur" to church or give me
list of possible completions. At the moment, I get only a list of single
entry completions.
Best, Adrian.
> regards
> r.
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