Re: BBDB - address alias

[Reiner Steib]

On Thu, May 04 2006, Oliver Jennrich wrote:

> is there a way to teach BBDB address aliases? Suppose you want to
> store the contact details of A. Smith, B. Jones and C. Miller, all of
> them are with ACME Inc. Obviously, you don't want to enter their
> office addresses more than once but have just one entry for ACME
> Inc. and then just an alias for ACME in the Smith, Jones and Miller
> records.
>
> Does anyone know how to achieve that?

Add a mail-alias field "ACME" to those people in your BBDB:

,----[ (info "(bbdb)Mail Sending Interfaces") ]
|    For convenience there is the function `bbdb-add-or-remove-mail-alias'
| bound to `a' which adds an alias to one or multiple records when
| prefixed by a `*'.  Called with a prefix argument `C-u' it will remove
| the given alias.
| 
|    If more than one person has the same mail-alias, then that alias
| expands to the addresses of all of those people; in this way you can
| maintain mailing lists within the BBDB.
|
| [...]
|    To actually define the aliases which are stored in the BBDB, call the
| function `bbdb-define-all-aliases' from your `mail-setup-hook' (or
| `message-setup-hook' if you use Message mode coming with Gnus).  This
| will search the database, and call `define-mail-alias' to define each
| of the resulting aliases.
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Bye, Reiner.
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