From: Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>
To: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: using bbdb in split methods
Date: Mon, 05 Sep 2011 18:13:58 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87bouzthy1.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87hb4rsa22.fsf@ucl.ac.uk>
On Mon, Sep 05 2011, Eric S Fraga wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I get way too much email (don't we all?) but using gnus with splitting
> helps tremendously in tackling this problem. I use fancy splitting and
> everything works just fine. The majority of my emails get sent to
> appropriate mail folders (work colleagues, mailing lists, etc.) and I'm
> pretty happy with his. However, I still have a "catch all" folder that
> takes any emails that have not been split off. This still ends up being
> too big and I'm forced to look at it more often than I would like.
>
> I would like to further split emails that would end up here without
> having to write any more rules based on specific "from" entries. What I
> would like ideally is to be able to split off emails if the "from" or
> even the "to" addresses are one that are known to BBDB, implying
> messages from or to people I know or that I have corresponded with in
> the past.
>
> Is this possible? Has anybody done this already? Any pointers to how
> to do this would be very welcome! I assume that something should be
> possible using the "(: FUNCTION args...)" form but this is where I get
> stuck. Maybe I need help from somebody with BBDB expertise?
>
> Many thanks,
> eric
Unless I'm misunderstanding you, this is already built into BBDB. Give
any BBDB record a "gnus-private" field with a gnus group name (ie
"mail.myfriend"). Then set the following two variables:
(setq nnmail-split-methods 'bbdb/gnus-split-method
bbdb/gnus-split-nomatch-function 'nnmail-split-fancy)
Splits will happen for BBDB records first, and then fall through to
nnmail-split-fancy. That ought to do it…
E
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-09-05 10:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-09-05 7:49 Eric S Fraga
2011-09-05 10:13 ` Eric Abrahamsen [this message]
2011-09-05 13:02 ` Eric S Fraga
2011-09-06 7:55 ` Eric S Fraga
2011-09-07 2:24 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2011-09-07 8:08 ` Eric S Fraga
2011-09-07 11:00 ` Rasmus
2011-09-07 15:03 ` David Engster
2011-09-27 21:39 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-09-28 15:10 ` Eric S Fraga
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