From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/16349 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Glyn Millington Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Re: lamer... how to send group email efficiently Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2013 21:36:24 +0100 Organization: Utterly lacking Message-ID: <87bo6vdz5j.fsf@nowhere.org> References: <87mwqfxp12.fsf@newsguy.com> Reply-To: glyn.millington@gmail.com NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1372106210 31166 80.91.229.3 (24 Jun 2013 20:36:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2013 20:36:50 +0000 (UTC) To: info-gnus-english@gnu.org Original-X-From: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jun 24 22:36:50 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1UrDVK-00067b-8L for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Mon, 24 Jun 2013 22:36:50 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:49723 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UrDVJ-0006Pr-TV for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Mon, 24 Jun 2013 16:36:49 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:44296) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UrDVG-0006P2-Rf for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Mon, 24 Jun 2013 16:36:48 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UrDVD-0008UR-Qg for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Mon, 24 Jun 2013 16:36:46 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:42993) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UrDVD-0008TH-JO for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Mon, 24 Jun 2013 16:36:43 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1UrDVB-00061S-9f for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Mon, 24 Jun 2013 22:36:41 +0200 Original-Received: from cust25-dsl91-135-3.idnet.net ([91.135.3.25]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 24 Jun 2013 22:36:41 +0200 Original-Received: from glyn.millington by cust25-dsl91-135-3.idnet.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 24 Jun 2013 22:36:41 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 60 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: cust25-dsl91-135-3.idnet.net X-Liturgical-Date: Solemnity: The Birth of John the Baptist, A.D. 2013 X-Shakespeare: "If it were done when 'tis done, then 'twere well It were done quickly." -- Macbeth, I.7 User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:Bm58IqAIJuiJU5kgXOkvJuyxaaE= X-Leafnode-NNTP-Posting-Host: 127.0.0.1 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: info-gnus-english@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Announcements and discussions for GNUS, the GNU Emacs Usenet newsreader \(in English\)" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.user:16349 Archived-At: Harry Putnam writes: > Its a lamer question for 10+ yr gnus user but I've never had occasion > to send group emails. Just not something I do. > > Now I have need of a nice efficient way to send emails to a couple > dozen recipients... and looks as if I will be doing this every couple > of weeks. > > The list of recipients will change over time but only by a few > deletions or additions... so it would be nice to be able to just add > or subtract email address' to/from something and gnus/emacs will do > the rest. > > There must be a number of folks here who have developed nifty ways to > do this... please anyone share your technique. Hi Harry, >From the Manual | 2.10 Mail Aliases | | | | The message-mail-alias-type variable controls what type of mail alias | | expansion to use. Currently two forms are supported: mailabbrev and | | ecomplete. If this variable is nil, no mail alias expansion will be | | performed. | | | | mailabbrev works by parsing the `/etc/mailrc' and `~/.mailrc' | | files. These files look like: | | | | | | | | alias lmi "Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen " | | alias ding "ding@ifi.uio.no (ding mailing list)" | | | | After adding lines like this to your `~/.mailrc' file, you should be able | | to just write `lmi' in the To or Cc (and so on) headers and press SPC to | | expand the alias. | | | | No expansion will be performed upon sending of the message--all | | expansions have to be done explicitly. | | | | If you're using ecomplete, all addresses from To and Cc headers will | | automatically be put into the `~/.ecompleterc' file. When you enter text | | in the To and Cc headers, ecomplete will check out the values stored | | there and "electrically" say what completions are possible. To choose one | | of these completions, use the M-n command to move down to the list. Use | | M-n and M-p to move down and up the list, and RET to choose a completion. | \===========================================================================/ Of course, bbdb has it's own way of dealing with mail aliases. hth Glyn