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[Timothy Murphy]

Anne Wilson wrote:

> On Thursday 08 Sep 2011 John Aldrich wrote:
>> On Thu September 8 2011, Timothy Murphy wrote:
>> > I see that according to the KMail Handbook (kdepim-4.4.11)
>> > -------------------------------
>> > Mailing List
>> > If you are going to use the folder for a mailing list
>> > then you should check Folder holds a mailing list
>> > to associate this folder with the mailing list.
>> > Next you should click on Detect Automatically.
>> > -------------------------------
>> > 
>> > What exactly is a "mailing list" in this context?
>> > The Handbook does not seem to give any information on this.
>> > How does one install a mailing list into a Folder?
>> > Could someone give an example of such a mailing list, please.
>> 
>> The KDE at lists.fedoraproject.org is a mailing
>> list. I think you're confusing *running* a mailing list with being
>> subscribed to a mailing list and having the messages for that list going
>> into a particular folder specifically for the mailing list.
> 
> The other thing it does is to allow you to associate "Reply to List" to
> that folder.

I should say that what I really want to do
is set up my own mailing list,
ie a list of email addresses
and a facility to send email to a "virtual address", say "MyFriends",
which will result in the message being sent
to the people on the list.

Is that possible with the current PIM/KMail/KAddressBook?

It used to be possible with KAddressBook, but seems to have disappeared.
This is rather difficult to discover, as KAddressBook 
has not had an official Handbook for many years,
despite their being a pointer to it.

Am I alone in wishing that the PIM developers in particular,
and KDE developers in general,
would stop thinking of clever things to do,
and document properly what is available now?




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Timothy Murphy  
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