From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: phillip.lord@newcastle.ac.uk (Phillip Lord) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: .mailrc Date: Thu, 01 May 2014 10:53:09 +0100 Message-ID: <87y4ylkepm.fsf@newcastle.ac.uk> References: <874n1bkuuq.fsf@newcastle.ac.uk> <87fvkvt84v.fsf@gnu.org> <8738gvjbxf.fsf@newcastle.ac.uk> <87mwf3rofh.fsf@gnu.org> <87fvkuk631.fsf_-_@nl106-137-194.student.uu.se> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1398938028 32006 80.91.229.3 (1 May 2014 09:53:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 1 May 2014 09:53:48 +0000 (UTC) To: Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu May 01 11:53:41 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1WfngQ-0003dW-D8 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 01 May 2014 11:53:38 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:38591 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WfngQ-0002z1-0a for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 01 May 2014 05:53:38 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:36732) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Wfng8-0002xI-BJ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 01 May 2014 05:53:25 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Wfng3-0000yX-HL for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 01 May 2014 05:53:20 -0400 Original-Received: from cheviot22.ncl.ac.uk ([128.240.234.22]:38085) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Wfng3-0000xg-B3 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 01 May 2014 05:53:15 -0400 Original-Received: from smtpauth-vm.ncl.ac.uk ([10.8.233.129]) by cheviot22.ncl.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1Wfng1-0001HF-E3 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 01 May 2014 10:53:13 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost (jangai.ncl.ac.uk [10.66.67.223]) (authenticated bits=0) by smtpauth-vm.ncl.ac.uk (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id s419rC1R001914 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NO) for ; Thu, 1 May 2014 10:53:13 +0100 In-Reply-To: <87fvkuk631.fsf_-_@nl106-137-194.student.uu.se> (Emanuel Berg's message of "Wed, 30 Apr 2014 20:47:14 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 128.240.234.22 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:97508 Archived-At: Emanuel Berg writes: >>> The To: field isn't required. I've just sent a test >>> mail with no To: field and only Bcc: >>> my@addr1.invalid, my@addr2.invalid and the mail was >>> delivered correctly to both addresses. But of >>> course, there might be mailing lists that are >>> configured to bounce messages without To:. >> >> Yes, this is the case. > > That is somewhat understandable (yeah, what's so > secretive about it?), but why bounce on several > addresses in the To: header? To stop people sending mass emails out to lots of mailing lists. Which is, of course, exactly what I am trying to do, although in my case it's 10 rather than 1000s of mailing lists. > alias crew "name1 , name2 " # cool > > Then just type crew in the To: header. > > Only drawback is you probably want aliases for the > individual names as well, so if you ever need to change > an address, search and replace is recommended. I don't > know if anyone knows a quick way to get around that, > i.e., to not have to have the same data > "hard-specified" at several places? I use bbdb mail aliases. The association works the other way around (the name has an alias, rather than alias has a name). Phil