From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Cecil Westerhof Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Send mails to group of email addresses in bbdb, When C-x m (compose-mail) Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2010 13:55:56 +0200 Organization: Decebal Computing Message-ID: <87r5hxqwqb.fsf@linux-lqcw.site> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1291858808 7057 80.91.229.12 (9 Dec 2010 01:40:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 9 Dec 2010 01:40:08 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Dec 09 02:40:02 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PQVUI-0000Nt-F2 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 09 Dec 2010 02:40:02 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:35179 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PQVUH-00005b-Q8 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 08 Dec 2010 20:40:01 -0500 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.glorb.com!news2.glorb.com!feeder.erje.net!newsfeed.straub-nv.de!feeder.news-service.com!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed5.news.xs4all.nl!xs4all!post.news.xs4all.nl!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help X-Homepage: http://www.decebal.nl/ User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:yoreKvwHBlwceHnBN4E/i+zD4dE= Original-Lines: 24 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 84.53.123.169 Original-X-Trace: 1282046146 news.xs4all.nl 22918 decebal/[::ffff:84.53.123.169]:29729 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@xs4all.nl Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:180781 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:76400 Archived-At: Op zondag 15 aug 2010 16:28 CEST schreef filebat: > I'd like for send mails to couple of recipients in bbdb. > > I try to achieve this, by the following workaround. > - Create an user defined field of "Group" in bbdb. > - Each record will be tagged to several groups manually. > - Whenever I want to send mails to certain group, I will search bbdb records > which has the value of this group. > - In *bbdb* buffer, press "* m". And I got the To field with a list of email address. > > Is there any built-in utility, which helps to better support this feature. You should use mail-alias for this. When you use a comma delimited list in mail-alias, then the record is a member of every maillist with this name. When putting in the complete name (tab expansion does not work) and given tab, the name of the alias is expanded to every (first) e-mail address of the records having this alias in mail-alias. -- Cecil Westerhof Senior Software Engineer LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/cecilwesterhof