* using unix type mail alias file with gnus?
@ 2009-02-17 22:57 John Velman
2009-02-18 5:24 ` Teemu Likonen
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From: John Velman @ 2009-02-17 22:57 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: info-gnus-english
I've been using Vim and Mutt all these years (although I had a brief
fling with emacs about 20 years ago). Having moved from Linux to Mac OS
X a year ago, I couldn't find a decent newsreader and decided to try
gnus (I'm running Aquamacs on my Mac). Am trying to use emacs for my
text editing in place of Vim, although I feel guilty. Everything is
going well (mostly) except for having a lot of key-combos to
internalize.
Well, in for a penny, in for a pound. I'm now doing my email with gnus
as well. Basic setup using procmail and nnfolder, so I can still look
at things with Mutt (as a security blanket), but generally am quite
happy.
One answer I haven't been able to find yet is how to use my .mail_alias
file with gnus. It seems it wouldn't be too hard to write some elisp to
do that, but perhaps someone has done it?
Most mail addressing advice I find for gnus seems to use the BBDB, which
seems to have mixed results on Aquamacs (based on my googling). It also
seems like a real overkill for me. I'm something of a dinosaur and keep
mailing addresses with pen and ink, keep business cards I need with a
big paperclip. All I want from a mail-address-keeping program is my
alias for the person, the real name, and the email address.
Thanks,
John Velman
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* Re: using unix type mail alias file with gnus?
2009-02-17 22:57 using unix type mail alias file with gnus? John Velman
@ 2009-02-18 5:24 ` Teemu Likonen
2009-02-19 17:36 ` [solved] " John Velman
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From: Teemu Likonen @ 2009-02-18 5:24 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: info-gnus-english
On 2009-02-17 14:57 (-0800), John Velman wrote:
> One answer I haven't been able to find yet is how to use my
> .mail_alias file with gnus. It seems it wouldn't be too hard to write
> some elisp to do that, but perhaps someone has done it?
This may not answer exactly your question but ~/.mailrc file work too.
The format is nearly the same as Mutt's alias file:
alias shortname "First Lastname <email@address>"
Aliases will be expanded in message-writing buffer when editing
recipient headers.
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* [solved] Re: using unix type mail alias file with gnus?
2009-02-18 5:24 ` Teemu Likonen
@ 2009-02-19 17:36 ` John Velman
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From: John Velman @ 2009-02-19 17:36 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: info-gnus-english
Teemu Likonen <tlikonen@iki.fi> writes:
> On 2009-02-17 14:57 (-0800), John Velman wrote:
>
>> One answer I haven't been able to find yet is how to use my
>> .mail_alias file with gnus. It seems it wouldn't be too hard to write
>> some elisp to do that, but perhaps someone has done it?
>
> This may not answer exactly your question but ~/.mailrc file work too.
> The format is nearly the same as Mutt's alias file:
>
> alias shortname "First Lastname <email@address>"
>
> Aliases will be expanded in message-writing buffer when editing
> recipient headers.
Thanks, Teemu.
I should have known (or found this) but never thought to
look for mailrc. I haven't used vanilla mail since about 1986 (with
at&t pc, small local network, and uucp for anything outside the
building). I'd completely forgotten about .mailrc. I had to do some
editing on my .mail_alias file (still have some to do), but it was a
small file and needed to be pruned anyway.
Thanks again,
John V.
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