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Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de> writes:

> Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> writes:
>
>> 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.
>
> Ok, that would be the last resort.  I had hoped for a nice solution in
> Emacs.

But what would a "nice solution" look like? I suppose you could always
write your own completion-at-point function.

> BTW, anyone knowing why BBDB comes with a manual that looks like

BBDB's lack of manual is half of why I ended up writing EBDB (only
partly joking).