From: Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>
To: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: using bbdb in split methods
Date: Wed, 07 Sep 2011 10:24:22 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87sjo9cco9.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8762l6gl5j.fsf@ucl.ac.uk>
On Tue, Sep 06 2011, Eric S Fraga wrote:
> Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> writes:
>
> [...]
>
>> 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
>>
>>
>
> Eric,
>
> just to confirm that this works perfectly. I now have the best of both
> worlds. Many thanks for pointing this out. There's much to learn in
> bbdb (and gnus)!
There certainly is! If you're considering digging in, be aware that BBDB
3, which contains significant improvements over the last version, is
trundling towards readiness. It introduces some fairly large changes and
is currently lacking much documentation -- if you're interested in going
deeper you might consider waiting for that, or digging into its code.
E
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-09-07 2:24 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
2011-09-05 13:02 ` Eric S Fraga
2011-09-06 7:55 ` Eric S Fraga
2011-09-07 2:24 ` Eric Abrahamsen [this message]
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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