Re: address lists?

[Henrik Holm <henrikh@ii.uib.no>]

[Bud Rogers:]
> Is there a way either in gnus or bbdb to send mail to a small
> list of addresses?  I'd like to send mail to the 4 or 5
> members of a study group using one address.  I know I could do
> it with /etc/aliases, but that presumes root access.  Surely
> there's a simple gnus/bbdb method available to ordinary users.

[Jody M. Klymak:]
> Use your .mailrc.  In mine I have 
> 
> alias folks \
> "Name1 Lastname1 <name1@boo.com>", \
> "Name4 Lastname4 <name4@boo4.com>", \
> "Name3 Lastname3 <name3@boo3.com>", \
> "Name2 Lastname2 <name2@boo2.com>"

Hi Bud, Jody and Kai,

There is also a way of doing this by utilizing BBDB only.  Some of my
BBDB posts contain the field `mail-alias'.  For instance, john, paul and
judy's BBDB posts contains the field `mail-alias' with the value
`mylist'.  Typing `mylist<SPC>' in the `To:' field of my message causes
`mylist' to be expanded to the mail addresses of john, paul and judy.
This provides the same functionality as having `mylist' specified in
.mailrc as described above, but I do not need to maintain two lists.

Also, I have added the line 
(add-hook 'message-setup-hook 'bbdb-define-all-aliases) 
to my .gnus .

You might want to have a look at the four last paragraphs of the *Mail
Sending Interfaces* node in the Info pages for BBDB.

This might be an important issue: my .mailrc is empty, since I've moved
all my addresses into the BBDB batabase.  I don't know wether that is
important, but it might be!

NOTE: I am not currently using pGnus (I'm using Gnus 5.7).  If anything
I have mentioned above does not apply to pGnus, please correct me,
anyone!

Henrik.

-- 
Henrik Holm, Research fellow    ---    Dept. of Telecommunications, NTNU
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                            Currently visiting Dept. of Informatics, UiB