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From: Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>
To: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: Define groups of recipients
Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2019 08:58:09 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87a7hwb04u.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87ef78qh12.fsf@web.de>

Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de> writes:

> Enrico Schumann <es@enricoschumann.net> writes:
>
>> 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.
>
> Ok, thanks.  Do I get it right that this approach involves to add an
> individual contact for any person that should be part of the group?  Is
> there any way to avoid this?

How would you rather have it work? I think you can also do it manually
by adding lines to a ~/.mailrc file, see the "Mail Aliases" section of
the Message manual. It looks like it's meant for expanding a single
contact address, but I'll bet you can put whatever string you like in
there.

Eric




  reply	other threads:[~2019-03-15 15:58 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
2019-03-15 15:44   ` Michael Heerdegen
2019-03-15 15:58     ` Eric Abrahamsen [this message]
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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