From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/18446 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Enrico Schumann Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Re: Define "Group" of mail recipients in Gnus? Date: Tue, 08 Nov 2016 12:41:48 +0100 Message-ID: <87y40u19mr.fsf@enricoschumann.net> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1478605331 8685 195.159.176.226 (8 Nov 2016 11:42:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 8 Nov 2016 11:42:11 +0000 (UTC) Cc: info-gnus-english@gnu.org To: Rainer M Krug Original-X-From: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Nov 08 12:42:07 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1c44mv-00011X-8O for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Tue, 08 Nov 2016 12:42:01 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:60383 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1c44my-0000v6-2d for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Tue, 08 Nov 2016 06:42:04 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:37818) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1c44mv-0000uj-3u for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Tue, 08 Nov 2016 06:42:02 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1c44mq-00075O-7s for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Tue, 08 Nov 2016 06:42:01 -0500 Original-Received: from www231.your-server.de ([188.40.28.11]:44308) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1c44mq-000748-1Y for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Tue, 08 Nov 2016 06:41:56 -0500 Original-Received: from [88.198.220.132] (helo=sslproxy03.your-server.de) by www231.your-server.de with esmtpsa (TLSv1.2:DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384:256) (Exim 4.85_2) (envelope-from ) id 1c44mk-0006Bv-12; Tue, 08 Nov 2016 12:41:50 +0100 Original-Received: from [109.164.234.9] (helo=radiance.enricoschumann.net) by sslproxy03.your-server.de with esmtpsa (TLSv1.2:DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384:256) (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1c44mj-0005dt-Ge; Tue, 08 Nov 2016 12:41:49 +0100 In-Reply-To: (Rainer M. Krug's message of "Tue, 08 Nov 2016 10:58:01 +0100") X-Authenticated-Sender: es@enricoschumann.net X-Virus-Scanned: Clear (ClamAV 0.99.2/22499/Tue Nov 8 11:28:14 2016) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x (no timestamps) [generic] X-Received-From: 188.40.28.11 X-BeenThere: info-gnus-english@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.user:18446 Archived-At: On Tue, 08 Nov 2016, Rainer M Krug writes: > Hi > > I have at the moment regularly mails which I have to send to a large > number (28) recipients. In other mail clients, I can define a "group" > and ust send the mail to the group while the mail client handles > everything. > > Is there something similar in Gnus? > > Thanks, > > Rainer If you use BBDB, you could use mail aliases. (At least in v2; not sure about v3.) That is, you define a field 'mail-alias' for each member of a group, with value . Then, when you write the message, put into the To-header. The groupname would [should ;-)] then expand to the actual email addresses. Kind regards Enrico -- Enrico Schumann Lucerne, Switzerland http://enricoschumann.net