From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/7247 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Oliver Jennrich Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Re: BBDB - address alias Date: Fri, 05 May 2006 00:30:50 +0200 Organization: Order of the Eternally Confused Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1146782438 1003 80.91.229.2 (4 May 2006 22:40:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 4 May 2006 22:40:38 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri May 05 00:40:36 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FbmUl-0000ND-92 for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Fri, 05 May 2006 00:40:28 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FbmUl-00051u-3V for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Thu, 04 May 2006 18:40:27 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.gnus Original-Lines: 38 Original-X-Trace: individual.net VpadfAr+6pyzbWu6g17+ZwSkKUUC6R4YDY+wAk0IzfbHs5 User-Agent: Gnus/5.1007 (Gnus v5.10.7) XEmacs/21.4.19 (cygwin32) Cancel-Lock: sha1:x3pP5zKz7b6L243TnxXXyG5lYGA= Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.gnus:77430 Original-To: info-gnus-english@gnu.org 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:7247 Archived-At: Reiner Steib writes: > On Thu, May 04 2006, Oliver Jennrich wrote: > >> is there a way to teach BBDB address aliases? Suppose you want to >> store the contact details of A. Smith, B. Jones and C. Miller, all of >> them are with ACME Inc. Obviously, you don't want to enter their >> office addresses more than once but have just one entry for ACME >> Inc. and then just an alias for ACME in the Smith, Jones and Miller >> records. >> >> Does anyone know how to achieve that? > > Add a mail-alias field "ACME" to those people in your BBDB: Yes, I know. I didn't make myself clear. I was thinking about the postal address of ACME Inc. > ,----[ (info "(bbdb)Mail Sending Interfaces") ] > | For convenience there is the function `bbdb-add-or-remove-mail-alias' > | bound to `a' which adds an alias to one or multiple records when > | prefixed by a `*'. Called with a prefix argument `C-u' it will remove > | the given alias. > | > | If more than one person has the same mail-alias, then that alias > | expands to the addresses of all of those people; in this way you can > | maintain mailing lists within the BBDB. Yes, I'm doing that. But what I want is an almost opposite feature. Defining an 'alias' for common information, such as the company's address, the phone-number of the switchboard etc., so that I don't have to type them over and over again and can maintain them at *one* place. Yes, I'm using bbdb for wirting the occasional snail mail letter... -- Space - The final frontier