Re: spam.el: asking about removing spam-use-BBDB

[Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>]

On Sun, Oct 23 2011, Dave Goldberg wrote:

>>> I'd like to remove the spam-use-BBDB processor in spam.el.
>>> I believe it's hardly used and after testing it for a while, I believe
>>> it's not as good as I thought originally.
>
>> I use bbdb as a whitelist and so set spam-use-BBDB-exclusive to t.
>> Works exactly as I want it to.  If there's an alternative way to use a
>> whitelist I am not afraid to change.
>
> Since updating, I've run into a couple problems. First one I think I
> figured out, but I wonder if it might still have some relevance - I
> was seeing undefined function errors. I fixed that by recompiling with
> a running Emacs that had bbdb loaded. However, now it seems that the
> bbdb matching function is no longer matching addresses that are
> clearly in my bbdb. Here's a snippets from *Messages*:

It was probably `bbdb-search-simple' that was undefined: that function
disappeared between BBDB versions 2 and 3, and spam.el is still using
it. It's possible that by recompiling you ended up with a mish-mash of
BBDB versions: what does `bbdb-version' report?

Eric

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