Re: bbdb-ignore-message-alist

["Roland Winkler" <winkler@gnu.org>]

On Tue Aug 28 2012 Mitchel Humpherys wrote:
> I'd like to configure bbdb to not auto-notice addresses in mailing
> list mail. I'm trying to use the `X-Mailing-List' and
> `X-Mailman-Version' headers, since those seem to be consistently
> present on all the mailing lists I read, but it doesn't seem to be
> working (i.e. bbdb still offers to save email addresses from mails
> containing those headers)... What am I doing wrong?
> 
> (setq bbdb-ignore-message-alist
>       '((("X-Mailman-Version" "X-Mailing-List") . ".*")))

I am trying to crosspost this on the gnus mailing list, too, because
your problem has to do with some subtleties of Gnus that go beyond
my knowledge of Gnus.

Gnus has two functions for accessing headers of a message,
gnus-fetch-field and gnus-fetch-original-field. The latter uses
gnus-original-article-buffer. I do not know which buffer the former
function is using. Only gnus-original-article-buffer contains the
X-* headers you want to access. But BBDB currently uses
gnus-fetch-field to access the headers of a Gnus message. So that's
why BBDB believes the messages had no X-* headers.

So my question is: What should BBDB do to access the headers of a
Gnus message in a way that is both reliable and efficient?

Thanks,

Roland


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