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Re: content management in emacs
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Martin Steffen |
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Re: content management in emacs |
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Sat, 27 Feb 2021 20:16:19 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.1 (gnu/linux) |
>>>>> "Ian" == Ian Garmaise <ian.g@phorixsol.com> writes:
Ian> Hi Bob,
Ian> How do you send mail to mailing lists with BBDB? Do you use a
I am not sure about the question. If I send to an email list, it's an
address in BBDB. So I ``invoke'' BBDB (M-x bbdb) and give it the name of
the entry (say org-mode). That's analogous to send to a person: If you
remember the name (or part of the name), you find the entry, send then
compose an email ("m") on the entry.
Tab-completion may help.
If the question is: how do I send an email to all members of my chess
club or drinking buddies? If you have added some field to persons of
that circle (like "bridgeclub" or "drinkingbuddy", then you invoke bbdb
with that match, and then there is a possibility to send an email to
/all/ members of a matching list.
For phoning, I am not sure. I think there is (or was) a functionality to
initiate a call (probably with skype or ekiga or some such) but I never
used that.
Basically, for phoning, for me it's more like a rolodex, but a fast and
big one
Martin
Ian> templating tool? Also, how do you start a phone call?
Ian> Ian
Ian> Message: 28 Date: Sat, 27 Feb 2021 06:53:57 -1000 From: Bob
Ian> Newell <bobnewell@bobnewell.net> To: "emacs-orgmode"
Ian> <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org> Subject: Re: contact management in
Ian> emacs Message-ID: <s6jv9ad1mfu.fsf@emailmessageidheader.nil>
Ian> Content-Type: text/plain
Ian> I've used BBDB for years, and have tried org-contact, but it
Ian> didn't seem to scale to the now rather large size of my BBDB
Ian> database.
Ian> I've looked at migrating to EBDB but as I have many custom
Ian> functions I haven't yet made the move.
Ian> BBDB can do amazing things. I've mentioned some of them
Ian> before. Of course org links are supported, and in conjunction
Ian> with the 'gnorb' package, Gnus email can be associated with
Ian> BBDB entries in interesting ways.
Ian> I use BBDB to easily maintain a slew of mailing lists. I also
Ian> have custom functions to set the input language mode for those
Ian> with whom I correspond in non-English languages. I even use
Ian> BBDB to initiate phone calls when I'm on my desktop computer.
Ian> I hadn't thought to put BBDB under version control but that
Ian> would be very easy.
Ian> However you don't need to get fancy right away. All the basics
Ian> are there. Like many things Emacs, it does take time to get
Ian> things set up the way you wish, but that time is well repaid
Ian> down the road a little.
Ian> -- Bob Newell Honolulu, Hawai`i
Ian> - Via GNU/Linux/Emacs/Gnus/BBDB
Ian> End of Emacs-orgmode Digest, Vol 180, Issue 30
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