Using email address lists in mu4e

To set up lists of multiple email multiple recipients with mu4e, you can make use of mail aliases. To do this, add lists to a file with the following format, with the word “alias” followed by the name you want for the list, followed by a space-separated list of email addresses:

alias jsmiths "John Q. Smith <none@example.com>" "Jane Q. Smith <email@address.com>"

You can either save this file as ~/.mailrc or put it anywhere and tell Emacs where to find it using e.g.

;;mail aliases for lists (address lists)
(setq mail-personal-alias-file (expand-file-name "/homeb/bjm/docs/mail-aliases"))

Now, when composing an email you can type the alias (“jsmiths” in our example) and hit space, and it will expand to the list of email addresses.

If you are using my improved address completion, then you can add those aliases to your bjm/contact-file to have them appear in your completion lists.

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