Re: using bbdb in split methods

[Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk>]

Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> writes:

> 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

Brilliant.  Thanks for this Eric!  This should do the trick.

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: Eric S Fraga (GnuPG: 0xC89193D8FFFCF67D) in Emacs 24.0.50.1 + No Gnus v0.18