>>>>> "Ian" == Ian Garmaise <ia...@phorixsol.com> writes:
Ian> Hi Bob, Ian> How do you send mail to mailing lists with BBDB? Do you use a I am not sure about the question. If I send to an email list, it's an address in BBDB. So I ``invoke'' BBDB (M-x bbdb) and give it the name of the entry (say org-mode). That's analogous to send to a person: If you remember the name (or part of the name), you find the entry, send then compose an email ("m") on the entry. Tab-completion may help. If the question is: how do I send an email to all members of my chess club or drinking buddies? If you have added some field to persons of that circle (like "bridgeclub" or "drinkingbuddy", then you invoke bbdb with that match, and then there is a possibility to send an email to /all/ members of a matching list. For phoning, I am not sure. I think there is (or was) a functionality to initiate a call (probably with skype or ekiga or some such) but I never used that. Basically, for phoning, for me it's more like a rolodex, but a fast and big one Martin Ian> templating tool? Also, how do you start a phone call? Ian> Ian Ian> Message: 28 Date: Sat, 27 Feb 2021 06:53:57 -1000 From: Bob Ian> Newell <bobnew...@bobnewell.net> To: "emacs-orgmode" Ian> <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org> Subject: Re: contact management in Ian> emacs Message-ID: <s6jv9ad1mfu....@emailmessageidheader.nil> Ian> Content-Type: text/plain Ian> I've used BBDB for years, and have tried org-contact, but it Ian> didn't seem to scale to the now rather large size of my BBDB Ian> database. Ian> I've looked at migrating to EBDB but as I have many custom Ian> functions I haven't yet made the move. Ian> BBDB can do amazing things. I've mentioned some of them Ian> before. Of course org links are supported, and in conjunction Ian> with the 'gnorb' package, Gnus email can be associated with Ian> BBDB entries in interesting ways. Ian> I use BBDB to easily maintain a slew of mailing lists. I also Ian> have custom functions to set the input language mode for those Ian> with whom I correspond in non-English languages. I even use Ian> BBDB to initiate phone calls when I'm on my desktop computer. Ian> I hadn't thought to put BBDB under version control but that Ian> would be very easy. Ian> However you don't need to get fancy right away. All the basics Ian> are there. Like many things Emacs, it does take time to get Ian> things set up the way you wish, but that time is well repaid Ian> down the road a little. Ian> -- Bob Newell Honolulu, Hawai`i Ian> - Via GNU/Linux/Emacs/Gnus/BBDB Ian> End of Emacs-orgmode Digest, Vol 180, Issue 30 Ian> ********************************************** Ian> -- ===== Ian Garmaise Consultant Phorix Solutions Group Ian> ia...@phorixsol.com Toronto cell: 416.432.2251 NYC: Ian> 917.512.9535 Ian> https://www.linkedin.com/in/igarmaise/ Ian> http://www.PhorixSol.com