On Monday, 27 Apr 2015 at 20:36, Glyn Millington wrote:
[...]
> A mail alias is a group name for multiple mail recipients. At least
> that's how I use 'em!
... whereas I use that entry most often as an alternative name,
i.e. alias, for a single recipient. I do also use it for defining
groups bu
Glyn Millington writes:
> Phil Hudson writes:
>
>> On Tue, 28 Apr 2015 at 10:34:32 am BST, Phil Hudson
>> wrote:
>>
>>> The term "mail alias" itself seems to me to be poorly chosen,
>
>> Replying to myself... I've thought of one, namely Gnus' use of "group"
>> (meaning/derived from "newsgroup"
Phil Hudson writes:
> On Tue, 28 Apr 2015 at 10:34:32 am BST, Phil Hudson
> wrote:
>
>> The term "mail alias" itself seems to me to be poorly chosen,
> Replying to myself... I've thought of one, namely Gnus' use of "group"
> (meaning/derived from "newsgroup") for what most MUAs call "mailbox",
On Tue, 28 Apr 2015 at 10:34:32 am BST, Phil Hudson
wrote:
> The term "mail alias" itself seems to me to be poorly chosen, bespeaking
> an inward-looking, comp-sci-technical, "historical reasons" (IOW no
> reason) viewpoint rather than an outward-looking, user- and
> usability-focused one. Much
On Thu, 30 Apr 2015 at 2:51:52 am BST, Nikolaus Rath wrote:
> I'm a little flabbergasted by this though. Why is there a need for a
> fallback in the first place? I think nil should be interpreted like the
> documentation say: do nothing.
I agree. We have a breach! A breach of the "Principle of
On Apr 28 2015, Glyn Millington wrote:
> Nikolaus Rath writes:
>> On Apr 28 2015, Glyn Millington wrote:
>>> Nikolaus Rath writes:
>>>
Well, yes, if you don't pass 'gnus to the bbdb-mua-auto-update-init
function, then it won't parse any Gnus article buffers.
However, I
On Tue, 28 Apr 2015 at 2:35:06 pm BST, Piet van Oostrum
wrote:
> In BBDB 3.1.2 there is no bbdb-define-all-aliases. It should be
> bbdb-mail-aliases, as mentioned in some earlier messages on this list. So the
> wiki should be updated.
Done.
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Nikolaus Rath writes:
> On Apr 28 2015, Glyn Millington wrote:
>
>> Nikolaus Rath writes:
>>
>>>
>>> Well, yes, if you don't pass 'gnus to the bbdb-mua-auto-update-init
>>> function, then it won't parse any Gnus article buffers.
>>>
>>> However, I *want* bbdb3 to parse the Gnus article buffers
On Apr 28 2015, Glyn Millington wrote:
> Nikolaus Rath writes:
>
>>
>> Well, yes, if you don't pass 'gnus to the bbdb-mua-auto-update-init
>> function, then it won't parse any Gnus article buffers.
>>
>> However, I *want* bbdb3 to parse the Gnus article buffers under same
>> conditions. I tried i
Nikolaus Rath writes:
>
> Well, yes, if you don't pass 'gnus to the bbdb-mua-auto-update-init
> function, then it won't parse any Gnus article buffers.
>
> However, I *want* bbdb3 to parse the Gnus article buffers under same
> conditions. I tried implemeting this conditions in a custom
> bbdb-mua
On Apr 27 2015, Glyn Millington wrote:
> (setq bbdb-message-all-addresses t)
Can you explain what this setting does?
The help says
,
| If t `bbdb-update-records' returns all mail addresses of a message.
| Otherwise this function returns only the first mail address of each message.
`
On Apr 27 2015, Glyn Millington wrote:
I'm using bbdb 3.1.2. I have the following configuration:
(require 'bbdb)
(bbdb-initialize 'gnus 'message)
(bbdb-mua-auto-update-init 'gnus 'message)
(setq bbdb-mua-pop-up t
bbdb-mua-auto-update-p nil
bbdb-u
Glyn Millington wrote:
> Tab is bound to message-x-tab, which of course comes from the message-x
> package, which interacts with bbdb.
Wow. I installed that and now it works. Thanks. My year-long (at least) quest
finally finished.
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Piet van Oostrum writes:
> Glyn Millington wrote:
>
> > Piet van Oostrum writes:
> >
> > > In BBDB 3.1.2 there is no bbdb-define-all-aliases. It should be
> bbdb-mail-aliases, as mentioned in some earlier messages on this list. So the
> wiki should be updated.
> > >
> > > What bbdb-mail-
Glyn Millington wrote:
> Piet van Oostrum writes:
>
> > In BBDB 3.1.2 there is no bbdb-define-all-aliases. It should be
> > bbdb-mail-aliases, as mentioned in some earlier messages on this list. So
> > the wiki should be updated.
> >
> > What bbdb-mail-aliases is supposed to do, is to a
On Tue, 28 Apr 2015 at 9:48:56 am BST, Glyn Millington
wrote:
> Yes. There are two. They are independent.
>
> But message.el can use either.
Got it. Thanks.
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On Mon, 27 Apr 2015 at 8:36:34 pm BST, Glyn Millington
wrote:
> mail-alias - I believe this is defined in bbdb.el You can insert that
> field into a record using the instructions offered here:
>
> http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/BbdbMailingLists
Thanks for that. I've tried it and it works exac
Phil Hudson writes:
> On Tue, 28 Apr 2015 at 2:09:26 am BST, Eric Abrahamsen
> wrote:
>
>> Phil Hudson writes:
>>
>>> On Mon, 27 Apr 2015 at 5:59:07 pm BST, Glyn Millington
>>> wrote:
>>>
(add-hook 'message-setup-hook 'bbdb-mail-aliases)
>>>
>>> This led me to the documentation fo
On Mon, 27 Apr 2015 at 8:36:34 pm BST, Glyn Millington
wrote:
> 'mail-alias' refers to aliases set up in a special
> file, usually called .mailrc. I'm not clear that this is involved with
> the bbdb at all.
Now this is really confusing. Are there two different mail-alias
systems, one involving
On Tue, 28 Apr 2015 at 2:09:26 am BST, Eric Abrahamsen
wrote:
> Phil Hudson writes:
>
>> On Mon, 27 Apr 2015 at 5:59:07 pm BST, Glyn Millington
>> wrote:
>>
>>> (add-hook 'message-setup-hook 'bbdb-mail-aliases)
>>
>> This led me to the documentation for bbdb-mail-aliases, which leads me
Phil Hudson writes:
> On Mon, 27 Apr 2015 at 5:59:07 pm BST, Glyn Millington
> wrote:
>
>> (add-hook 'message-setup-hook 'bbdb-mail-aliases)
>
> This led me to the documentation for bbdb-mail-aliases, which leads me
> to ask for an explanation of what a mail alias is. My guess is that it's
Phil Hudson writes:
> On Mon, 27 Apr 2015 at 5:59:07 pm BST, Glyn Millington
> wrote:
>
>> (add-hook 'message-setup-hook 'bbdb-mail-aliases)
>
> This led me to the documentation for bbdb-mail-aliases, which leads me
> to ask for an explanation of what a mail alias is. My guess is that it's
On Mon, 27 Apr 2015 at 5:59:07 pm BST, Glyn Millington
wrote:
> (add-hook 'message-setup-hook 'bbdb-mail-aliases)
This led me to the documentation for bbdb-mail-aliases, which leads me
to ask for an explanation of what a mail alias is. My guess is that it's
either a unique nickname for a m
Nikolaus Rath writes:
> On Apr 22 2015, Nikolaus Rath wrote:
>
>> On Apr 22 2015, Nikolaus Rath wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I'm using bbdb 3.1.2. I have the following configuration:
>>>
>>> (require 'bbdb)
>>> (bbdb-initialize 'gnus 'message)
>>> (bbdb-mua-auto-update-init 'gnus 'message)
>>> (se
On Apr 22 2015, Nikolaus Rath wrote:
> On Apr 22 2015, Nikolaus Rath wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I'm using bbdb 3.1.2. I have the following configuration:
>>
>> (require 'bbdb)
>> (bbdb-initialize 'gnus 'message)
>> (bbdb-mua-auto-update-init 'gnus 'message)
>> (setq bbdb-mua-pop-up t
>> bbdb-mu
On Apr 22 2015, Nikolaus Rath wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm using bbdb 3.1.2. I have the following configuration:
>
> (require 'bbdb)
> (bbdb-initialize 'gnus 'message)
> (bbdb-mua-auto-update-init 'gnus 'message)
> (setq bbdb-mua-pop-up t
> bbdb-mua-auto-update-p nil
> bbdb-update-records-p
Hello,
I'm using bbdb 3.1.2. I have the following configuration:
(require 'bbdb)
(bbdb-initialize 'gnus 'message)
(bbdb-mua-auto-update-init 'gnus 'message)
(setq bbdb-mua-pop-up t
bbdb-mua-auto-update-p nil
bbdb-update-records-p 'query
bbdb-ignore-message-alist
'(("Fro
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