Re: Personal mail lists with gnus plus bbdb

[Harry Putnam]

David Engster <deng@randomsample.de> writes:

[...]

>> 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.

I guess its a typo in the bbdb manual.

,----
|   Mailing Lists and Mail Aliases
|   ------------------------------
| 
|   If you are using Jamie Zawinski's `mail-abbrevs.el' package, which
|   uses the word-abbrev mechanism for mail aliases, then you can store
|   your mail aliases in the BBDB instead of duplicating the information
|   elsewhere.
`----

[...]

> Did you put something like
>
> (add-hook 'message-setup-hook 'bbdb-define-all-aliases)
>
> in your .gnus?

No, I got too worried about not having the library...

But now it works fine... thanks.

Richard Riley <rileyrgdev@gmail.com> writes:

[...]

> ,----
> | (add-hook 'message-mode-hook (lambda () (abbrev-mode 1)))
> | ; for alias field - useful for mailing lists
> | ;; (add-hook 'message-setup-hook 'bbdb-define-all-aliases)
> | (bbdb-define-all-aliases)
> `----

Working fine now... thanks.