Re: Personal mail lists with gnus plus bbdb

[Adrian Lanz]

>>>>> 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 manual is out of date or something.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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