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Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com> writes:

> OK, I added your patch (if I understand correctly, it still autoloads
> the bbdb-records function, but the bbdb-search macro needs special
> treatment), but what do we do if the user does not have BBDB
> installed?  
>
> As far as I'm concerned, spam-check-bbdb can just be an empty function
> without a BBDB installation, or it can raise an error.

Then we wrap it in a condition-case, and redefine spam-check-bbdb as
an alias to 'ignore in the error handler.

Alex.