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From: Enrico Schumann <es@enricoschumann.net>
To: Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de>
Cc: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: Define groups of recipients
Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2019 15:50:48 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <874l84199z.fsf@enricoschumann.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87bm2c5jzc.fsf@web.de> (Michael Heerdegen's message of "Fri, 15 Mar 2019 14:45:59 +0100")

>>>>> "MH" == Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de> writes:

    MH> Hi,
    MH> say I often want to send a message to a constant larger group of
    MH> recipients, what is the simplest way to do this with Emacs and Gnus?

    MH> I use BBDB and vaguely remember that it could be used to define mail
    MH> aliases for groups of mail addresses but it seems BBDB now comes without
    MH> documentation.


    MH> TIA,

    MH> Michael.

With BBDB 3.2, I have

  'mail-alias: <grp>'

fields in the contacts that belong to <grp> in my .bbdb.
In my .gnus.el, I have

  (add-hook 'message-setup-hook 'bbdb-mail-aliases)

When composing a message, the mail-alias in "To:", say,
expands (with SPC) into the list of emails.


kind regards
     Enrico
     
-- 
Enrico Schumann
Lucerne, Switzerland
http://enricoschumann.net



  reply	other threads:[~2019-03-15 14:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-03-15 13:45 Michael Heerdegen
2019-03-15 14:50 ` Enrico Schumann [this message]
2019-03-15 15:44   ` Michael Heerdegen
2019-03-15 15:58     ` Eric Abrahamsen
2019-03-15 19:37       ` Michael Heerdegen
2019-03-15 21:41         ` Eric Abrahamsen
2019-03-15 22:25           ` Michael Heerdegen
2019-03-16  0:41             ` Eric Abrahamsen
2019-03-17  0:42     ` Bob Newell
2019-03-17 12:42       ` Michael Heerdegen
2019-03-17 12:59         ` Dan Christensen
2019-03-18 15:16           ` Emanuel Berg
2019-03-18 16:31           ` Michael Heerdegen
2019-03-18 16:54           ` Michael Heerdegen
2019-03-18 17:15             ` Eric Abrahamsen
2019-03-18 22:59               ` Emanuel Berg
2019-03-19 15:34                 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2019-03-19 16:53                   ` Emanuel Berg
2019-03-16  0:17 ` Emanuel Berg

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