From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/13576 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Harry Putnam Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Personal mail lists with gnus plus bbdb Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2010 10:46:53 -0600 Organization: Still searching... Message-ID: <87k4vbqubm.fsf@newsguy.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1264092847 18201 80.91.229.12 (21 Jan 2010 16:54:07 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2010 16:54:07 +0000 (UTC) To: info-gnus-english@gnu.org Original-X-From: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jan 21 17:54:00 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1NY0Hz-0002gs-5V for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Thu, 21 Jan 2010 17:54:00 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:50019 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NY0Hp-0005jZ-07 for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Thu, 21 Jan 2010 11:53:37 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NY0Bw-0003pU-GW for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Thu, 21 Jan 2010 11:47:32 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NY0Br-0003iV-KS for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Thu, 21 Jan 2010 11:47:32 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=39175 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NY0Br-0003iG-H0 for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Thu, 21 Jan 2010 11:47:27 -0500 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:38636) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NY0Bq-00085h-TS for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Thu, 21 Jan 2010 11:47:27 -0500 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.50) id 1NY0Bh-00085F-N2 for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Thu, 21 Jan 2010 17:47:17 +0100 Original-Received: from c-98-215-178-110.hsd1.in.comcast.net ([98.215.178.110]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 21 Jan 2010 17:47:17 +0100 Original-Received: from reader by c-98-215-178-110.hsd1.in.comcast.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 21 Jan 2010 17:47:17 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 23 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: c-98-215-178-110.hsd1.in.comcast.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/23.1 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:Z37P/WZBgo5tZ1TQfNFg6pmKZw0= X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: info-gnus-english@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 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: , Original-Sender: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.user:13576 Archived-At: I'm getting a little confused about how to create a mailling list using gnus and bbdb. The directions talk as if `mail-abbrevs.el' is required to make it work. But I see that code is apparently not part of gnus, emacs or bbdb distributions. So wondering if this info in the manual is out of date or something. At least mail-abbrevs.el it is not on my system with gnus from cvs, emacs-23 and most recent bbdb installed. It appears it might be part of xemacs distro... but not sure about that since I don't use xemacs At any rate, just adding an aliase to a few bbdb entries, saving bbdb, then putting the alias in the To: field seems to not have the desired effect, and doesn't expand with M-tab (bbdb-complete-name as is described in the bbdb manual Googling `mail-abbrevs.el... isn't even turning up somewhere to download it. Can any one describe how they use bbdb with gnus to create mailling lists?