From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/79829 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eric S Fraga Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: using bbdb in split methods Date: Mon, 05 Sep 2011 08:49:41 +0100 Message-ID: <87hb4rsa22.fsf@ucl.ac.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1315214004 8100 80.91.229.12 (5 Sep 2011 09:13:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 5 Sep 2011 09:13:24 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M28123@lists.math.uh.edu Mon Sep 05 11:13:20 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from util0.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.18]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1R0VF1-0001cj-AE for ding-account@gmane.org; Mon, 05 Sep 2011 11:13:19 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by util0.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1R0VE9-0005uM-9u; Mon, 05 Sep 2011 04:12:25 -0500 Original-Received: from mx1.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.32]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1R0VE6-0005uA-QZ for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Mon, 05 Sep 2011 04:12:22 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx1.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1R0VE4-0005Pd-PV for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Mon, 05 Sep 2011 04:12:21 -0500 Original-Received: from vscani-e.ucl.ac.uk ([144.82.108.33]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1R0VE1-00012k-5N for ding@gnus.org; Mon, 05 Sep 2011 11:12:17 +0200 Original-Received: from dip057.chemeng.ucl.ac.uk ([128.40.228.156] helo=localhost) by vscani-e.ucl.ac.uk with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES128-SHA:128) (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1R0VDw-0001p5-D4 for ding@gnus.org; Mon, 05 Sep 2011 10:12:12 +0100 User-Agent: Gnus/5.110018 (No Gnus v0.18) Emacs/23.2 (gnu/linux) X-Face: av6A"vZ{AypDB`d^.T35oG%$E*Qh]4F)K=*$-NHz5{7WZfAFQFB]F@gf}l9`XLs9(iD?D/! nafKE,S#G!4W/flj=9(U{]t'lP,,5~:s*~;kKR Mail-Followup-To: ding@gnus.org X-UCL-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the UCL Helpdesk, helpdesk@ucl.ac.uk for more information X-UCL-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-UCL-MailScanner-From: e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk X-Spam-Status: No X-Spam-Score: -5.4 (-----) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:79829 Archived-At: 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 -- : Eric S Fraga (GnuPG: 0xC89193D8FFFCF67D) in Emacs 23.2.1 + No Gnus v0.18