From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/88440 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eric Abrahamsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Define groups of recipients Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2019 08:58:09 -0700 Message-ID: <87a7hwb04u.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> References: <87bm2c5jzc.fsf@web.de> <874l84199z.fsf@enricoschumann.net> <87ef78qh12.fsf@web.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="180345"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M36646@lists.math.uh.edu Fri Mar 15 16:58:52 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from lists1.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.208]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1h4pEQ-000khv-99 for ding-account@gmane.org; Fri, 15 Mar 2019 16:58:50 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by lists1.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1h4pE4-0002YP-9D; Fri, 15 Mar 2019 10:58:28 -0500 Original-Received: from mx2.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.33]) by lists1.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1.3:TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1h4pDz-0002Vk-A7 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Fri, 15 Mar 2019 10:58:23 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx2.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1.2:ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1h4pDx-0008VT-JV for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Fri, 15 Mar 2019 10:58:23 -0500 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (helo=blaine.gmane.org) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1h4pDt-0000Sh-OG for ding@gnus.org; Fri, 15 Mar 2019 16:58:19 +0100 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1h4pDr-000jzF-TM for ding@gnus.org; Fri, 15 Mar 2019 16:58:15 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Cancel-Lock: sha1:SWwpgLEw/Zytl7srRopZEq63e28= List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:88440 Archived-At: Michael Heerdegen writes: > Enrico Schumann writes: > >> With BBDB 3.2, I have >> >> 'mail-alias: ' >> >> fields in the contacts that belong to 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