Re: Personal mail lists with gnus plus bbdb

[David Engster]

Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com> writes:
> I'm getting a little confused about how to create a mailling list
> using gnus and bbdb.
>
> The directions talk as if `mail-abbrevs.el' is required to make it
> work.  But I see that code is apparently not part of gnus, emacs  or
> bbdb distributions.  So wondering if this info in the manual is out of
> date or something.
>
> At least mail-abbrevs.el it is not on my system with gnus from cvs,
> emacs-23 and most recent bbdb installed.

It's mailabbrev.el, and is part of Emacs.

> At any rate, just adding an aliase to a few bbdb entries, saving bbdb,
> then putting the alias in the To: field seems to not have the desired
> effect, and doesn't expand with M-tab (bbdb-complete-name as is described 
> in the bbdb manual

Did you put something like

(add-hook 'message-setup-hook 'bbdb-define-all-aliases)

in your .gnus?

-David