Re: gnus mail lists

[Hadron Quark]

Lowell Gilbert <lgusenet@be-well.ilk.org> writes:

> Hadron Quark <hadronquark@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Lowell Gilbert <lgusenet@be-well.ilk.org> writes:
>>
>>> Hadron Quark <hadronquark@gmail.com> writes:
>>>
>>>> Could some kind soul please point me in the right direction for
>>>> creating, maintaining and emailing a mail list in gnus e.g 28 people
>>>> belonging to a mail list called "relatives" and I can send a single
>>>> email to "relatives" and an email will go to all members of
>>>> "relatives". I currently use BBDB. Any pointers/Advice appreciated.
>>>
>>> See the "Mail Sending Interfaces" node in the BBDB manual.
>>
>> A quick google indicates that mail-abbrev.el is non existant and that
>> mailabbrev.el is included. I loaded this and enabled alias expansion. I
>> added (a in bbdb buffer) a mail-alias of "test" to two existing BBDB
>> entries.
>>
>> But when I expand the alias in the "too" field, it does not substitute
>> "test" with the emails of those BBDB entries that have a mail-alias
>> field containg "test".
>>
>> Have I misunderstood something?
>
> Good question; I can't get it to work either, now that I actually
> tried it.  I would like to trace the hook handling to track it down,
> but I don't have the time at the moment.

Any advice you can give at a later date would be much appreciated. I
would hate to have to leave gnus now after the learning curve and setup
issues I had :(