From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Riley Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Send mails to group of email addresses in bbdb, When C-x m (compose-mail) Date: Sun, 15 Aug 2010 18:31:49 +0200 Organization: aich tea tea pea dicky riley dot net Message-ID: References: <87sk2g6im7.fsf@MagnusOpus.khem> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1281890146 9735 80.91.229.12 (15 Aug 2010 16:35:46 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 15 Aug 2010 16:35:46 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Aug 15 18:35:45 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 1OkgBR-000684-LN for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 15 Aug 2010 18:35:41 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:34306 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OkgBQ-0007Zg-JI for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 15 Aug 2010 12:35:40 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=51172 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OkgAx-0007Zb-Hr for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 15 Aug 2010 12:35:16 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OkgAr-0001sv-0Y for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 15 Aug 2010 12:35:11 -0400 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:58221) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OkgAq-0001sq-RS for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 15 Aug 2010 12:35:04 -0400 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OkgAp-0005uG-QR for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 15 Aug 2010 18:35:03 +0200 Original-Received: from 85.183.18.158 ([85.183.18.158]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 15 Aug 2010 18:35:03 +0200 Original-Received: from rileyrg by 85.183.18.158 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 15 Aug 2010 18:35:03 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 19 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 85.183.18.158 User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) 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:74655 Archived-At: filebat Mark writes: > I see, mail-alias quite fit the requirement. > > Since we may have several groups, it would be better if we can choose from alias list when sending email. > abbreviations > > I am not sure I shall set mail-user-agent variable to what value. > I usually stay in the *Message* mode, when sending emails. > > Regards, > Denny You simply type in the alias you are interested in into the "to" field and then tab expand it. When adding a mail-alias to a bbdb record you can auto expand to existing aliases.