Re: using bbdb in split methods

[Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>]

On Mon, 05 Sep 2011 08:49:41 +0100 Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk> wrote: 

ESF> I get way too much email (don't we all?) but using gnus with splitting
ESF> helps tremendously in tackling this problem.  I use fancy splitting and
ESF> everything works just fine.  The majority of my emails get sent to
ESF> appropriate mail folders (work colleagues, mailing lists, etc.) and I'm
ESF> pretty happy with his.  However, I still have a "catch all" folder that
ESF> takes any emails that have not been split off.  This still ends up being
ESF> too big and I'm forced to look at it more often than I would like.

ESF> I would like to further split emails that would end up here without
ESF> having to write any more rules based on specific "from" entries.  What I
ESF> would like ideally is to be able to split off emails if the "from" or
ESF> even the "to" addresses are one that are known to BBDB, implying
ESF> messages from or to people I know or that I have corresponded with in
ESF> the past.

Eric, after the BBDB split you can split further with the Gnus registry,
using the parent message-ID from the references, then the subject and
the sender and the recipients.  It works well for me though of course I
still have leftovers.  The parent splitting is absolutely essential.

Ted