>>>>> "Alex" == Alex Schroeder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Alex> Sarir Khamsi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> I would like to create a mail alias for multiple recipients, that is,
>> a single mail alias would be a simple mailing list. I have been unable
>> to figure out how to do this with BBDB (2.34) or Gnus (5.10.3). Any
>> suggestions? Is the only way to do it with my ~/.mailrc file? Thanks.
Alex> No. Assume you have two records in your BBDB, A and B. For both,
Alex> use C-o to create a new field called 'mail-alias' and use "foo" as
Alex> the field value. Now, when you compose your next message, use
Alex> foo TAB to expand this to "A, B".
You have to make sure that you call (bbdb-define-all-aliases). Here's
the documentation for that function:
`bbdb-define-all-aliases' is a compiled Lisp function
-- loaded from "bbdb-com"
(bbdb-define-all-aliases)
Documentation:
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.
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Typically, you will call this function in your init file, whatever it
is. You also need to re-call it every time you add an alias. Sadly,
IIRC, it isn't interactive, you you must eval
(bbdb-define-all-aliases), rather than using M-x
bbdb-define-all-aliases. But that should be easy to fix.
Hope that helps,
R
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