From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/7248 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Reiner Steib Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Re: BBDB - address alias Date: Thu, 04 May 2006 23:40:46 +0200 Organization: Dept. of Theoretical Physics, University of Ulm Message-ID: References: Reply-To: Reiner Steib NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1146782439 1005 80.91.229.2 (4 May 2006 22:40:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 4 May 2006 22:40:39 +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 1FbmUj-0000MQ-QS for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Fri, 05 May 2006 00:40:26 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FbmUj-00051I-MW for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Thu, 04 May 2006 18:40:25 -0400 Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.gnus X-Face: :6KQZ[nyoS_edmB.%gw-=)BYth^|2+Y+^cu%I$FSx!&>-'om>3H7A|M&n(V7fIo3P.; yo.b yq4$p; ZaBtkv)\}biaiBQe"mD}iib1AA@99-fZ7i*bLhNRVC&0Wkxg9)SH?oWc@{ Mail-Copies-To: nobody User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:uNap8vcoWtGt5ZLG1jlshMl7Tr8= Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: bridgekeeper.physik.uni-ulm.de Original-X-Trace: news.uni-ulm.de 1146779367 134.60.10.123 (4 May 2006 23:49:27 +0200) Original-Lines: 36 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!newsfeed00.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!inka.de!rz.uni-karlsruhe.de!news.uni-ulm.de!viandante.physik.uni-ulm.de!not-for-mail Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.gnus:77429 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:7248 Archived-At: 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: ,----[ (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. | | [...] | To actually define the aliases which are stored in the BBDB, call the | function `bbdb-define-all-aliases' from your `mail-setup-hook' (or | `message-setup-hook' if you use Message mode coming with Gnus). This | will search the database, and call `define-mail-alias' to define each | of the resulting aliases. `---- Bye, Reiner. -- ,,, (o o) ---ooO-(_)-Ooo--- | PGP key available | http://rsteib.home.pages.de/