From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/26029 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Henrik Holm Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: address lists? Date: 25 Oct 1999 12:12:57 +0200 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: <7z904rg34m.fsf@mispel.ii.uib.no> References: <87u2nhr8h3.fsf@twocups.sirinet.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035163314 17264 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 01:21:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 01:21:54 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from bart.math.uh.edu (bart.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.48]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id GAA20248 for ; Mon, 25 Oct 1999 06:13:36 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by bart.math.uh.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id FAB21874; Mon, 25 Oct 1999 05:13:33 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Mon, 25 Oct 1999 05:13:44 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (root@sclp3.sclp.com [204.252.123.139]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id FAA11141 for ; Mon, 25 Oct 1999 05:13:32 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from ii.uib.no (eik.ii.uib.no [129.177.16.3]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id GAA20240 for ; Mon, 25 Oct 1999 06:13:00 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from mispel.ii.uib.no (mispel.ii.uib.no [129.177.192.67]) by ii.uib.no (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id MAA04949; Mon, 25 Oct 1999 12:12:58 +0200 (MET DST) Original-Received: (from henrikh@localhost) by mispel.ii.uib.no (8.8.8+Sun/8.8.7) id MAA01992; Mon, 25 Oct 1999 12:12:58 +0200 (MET DST) Original-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: Original-Lines: 47 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.7/Emacs 20.4 Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:26029 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:26029 [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 ", \ > "Name4 Lastname4 ", \ > "Name3 Lastname3 ", \ > "Name2 Lastname2 " 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' 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 mailto:Henrik.Holm@tele.ntnu.no - http://www.tele.ntnu.no/users/henrik Currently visiting Dept. of Informatics, UiB