From: Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk>
To: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: using bbdb in split methods
Date: Wed, 07 Sep 2011 09:08:39 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87vct46ago.fsf@ucl.ac.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87sjo9cco9.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> (Eric Abrahamsen's message of "Wed, 07 Sep 2011 10:24:22 +0800")
Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> writes:
> 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
>
>
Yes, I've been aware of bbdb 3 for a long time and, partly, this is why
I have resisted getting too much into the current bbdb... but that's
probably just an excuse for procrastination! :-(
Thanks again,
eric
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: Eric S Fraga (GnuPG: 0xC89193D8FFFCF67D) in Emacs 24.0.50.1 + No Gnus v0.18
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-09-07 8:08 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
2011-09-07 8:08 ` Eric S Fraga [this message]
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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