Re: Is Username Expansion possible in GNUS?

[Danny Siu <dsiu@mv.us.adobe.com>]

Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen writes:

  Lars> Danny Siu <dsiu@mv.us.adobe.com> writes:
  >> There is a very nice feature of Pine which can be included in GNUS
  >> message mode .  When composing a message in Pine, just type in the
  >> username, for example, "dsiu", and Pine will expend it to full name and
  >> uid@FQDN, like "Danny Siu <dsiu@adobe.com>".

  Lars> Put something like:

  Lars> alias dsiu "Danny Siu <dsiu@adobe.com>"

  Lars> in your .mailrc file.

Well, I don't think it's something I want to do since there are ~2000 people
at Adobe.  I am using .mailrc file now for aliases of my friends and group
aliases.

Also I am using BBDB which works wonderful!  It automatically learns the
name and email address of people whom I received mail from.

Prehaps I didn't state my question clearly.  For the people at Adobe whom I
have never received any mail from (hence no BBDB record), what I want is to
be able to expend their username (eg: jwz) to full name (first and last
name) so that I know I spell their email address right.

I don't know how Pine does that.  Maybe it looks up somewhere in the net and
give me fullname after I type in the email address.  Does anyone know how
Pine works this wonder?

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