From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "harry meyers" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: define mail alias Date: 17 Jul 2006 10:45:11 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <1153158311.561178.290250@b28g2000cwb.googlegroups.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1153161695 17930 80.91.229.2 (17 Jul 2006 18:41:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2006 18:41:35 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jul 17 20:41:32 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1G2Y1g-0002Ua-PN for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 17 Jul 2006 20:41:06 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1G2Y1f-0002KR-SE for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 17 Jul 2006 14:41:03 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!b28g2000cwb.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 26 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 84.191.27.197 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1153158316 22403 127.0.0.1 (17 Jul 2006 17:45:16 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2006 17:45:16 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: User-Agent: G2/0.2 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9a1) Gecko/20051213 Firefox/1.6a1,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: b28g2000cwb.googlegroups.com; posting-host=84.191.27.197; posting-account=I30K0Q0AAABNbMHNxg3aE0UsnX5wNzh2 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:140395 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:36019 Archived-At: Xavier Maillard schrieb: > Hi, > > I just discovered mail-alias and I am trying to take power of it. > > Until now I used mailrc file but as I can now use a > full-emacs-solution, I want to use it entirelly and get rid of mailrc > (I do not use other MUA that takes advantage of mailrc file). > > Do you have a solution to quickly add a mail alias (abbrev in fact) > such that it ask me for the abbrev name and its definition and put all > together into my abbrev file ? > > Thank you. > > Xavier > > P.S: do you know any mailrc to mail-abbrev converter ? The most complete solution you can get for that within emacs is bbdb. Maybe you want to take a look: http://bbdb.sourceforge.net/ harry