Harry Putnam <[email protected]> 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". regards r. -- Google Talk : [email protected] http://www.google.com/talk _______________________________________________ info-gnus-english mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-gnus-english
