Re: send mail to several recipients with bbdb

[Fabian Braennstroem <f.braennstroem@gmx.de>]

Jochen Küpper <usenet@jochen-kuepper.de> writes:

> On Tue, 13 Apr 2004 08:04:22 +0200 Fabian Braennstroem wrote:
>
> Fabian> when I get a mail with a lot of 'cc'-addresses, how can I save
> Fabian> them in bbdb.
>
> Are you looking for this?
> ,----[ C-h f bbdb/gnus-show-all-recipients RET ]
> | bbdb/gnus-show-all-recipients is an interactive compiled Lisp function in `bbdb-gnus'.
> | (bbdb/gnus-show-all-recipients)
> | 
> | Show all recipients of this message. Counterpart to `bbdb/vm-show-sender'.
> `----
>
> Fabian> And further on, how can I make a group, e.g. 'University',
> Fabian> from existing name-entries in bbdb which I can select to send
> Fabian> the mail to?
>
> Create 'mail-alias' entries in each of these entries with a value of
> 'University'. Then check out
> ,----[ C-h f bbdb-define-all-aliases RET ]
> | bbdb-define-all-aliases is an interactive compiled Lisp function in `bbdb-com'.
> | (bbdb-define-all-aliases)
> | 
> | Define mail aliases for some of the records in the database.
> | Every record which has a `mail-alias' field will have a mail alias
> | defined for it which is the contents of that field.  If there are
> | multiple comma-separated words in the `mail-alias' field, then all
> | of those words will be defined as aliases for that person.
> | 
> | If multiple entries in the database have the same mail alias, then
> | that alias expands to a comma-separated list of the network addresses
> | of all of those people.
> `----
Thanks! But somehow I am not able to insert the alias!?
My alias-relevant (I think :-)) code looks like this:

  ;; BBDB mail alias definitions:
  (autoload 'bbdb-define-all-aliases
    "bbdb-com" "Hook mail alias feature of BBDB into message-mode." t)
  (add-hook 'message-setup-hook 'bbdb-define-all-aliases)
  (add-hook 'message-mode-hook 'ls6-message-mode-hook-mail-aliases)
  (defun ls6-message-mode-hook-mail-aliases ()
    (define-key message-mode-map (kbd "C-c C-a")
      'mail-interactive-insert-alias))
  (setq bbdb-completion-display-record nil)

Does anybody have an idea?

Greetings!
-- 
Fabian Braennstroem
Berlin / Duesseldorf