Reiner Steib <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, May 04 2006, Oliver Jennrich wrote: > >> is there a way to teach BBDB address aliases? Suppose you want to >> store the contact details of A. Smith, B. Jones and C. Miller, all of >> them are with ACME Inc. Obviously, you don't want to enter their >> office addresses more than once but have just one entry for ACME >> Inc. and then just an alias for ACME in the Smith, Jones and Miller >> records. >> >> Does anyone know how to achieve that? > > Add a mail-alias field "ACME" to those people in your BBDB:
Yes, I know. I didn't make myself clear. I was thinking about the postal address of ACME Inc. > ,----[ (info "(bbdb)Mail Sending Interfaces") ] > | For convenience there is the function `bbdb-add-or-remove-mail-alias' > | bound to `a' which adds an alias to one or multiple records when > | prefixed by a `*'. Called with a prefix argument `C-u' it will remove > | the given alias. > | > | If more than one person has the same mail-alias, then that alias > | expands to the addresses of all of those people; in this way you can > | maintain mailing lists within the BBDB. Yes, I'm doing that. But what I want is an almost opposite feature. Defining an 'alias' for common information, such as the company's address, the phone-number of the switchboard etc., so that I don't have to type them over and over again and can maintain them at *one* place. Yes, I'm using bbdb for wirting the occasional snail mail letter... -- Space - The final frontier _______________________________________________ info-gnus-english mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-gnus-english
