Re: bbdb and nnmail-split-fancy

[Michael Cook <michael@waxrat.com>]

Jack Twilley <jmt+usenet@twilley.org> writes:

> There are more sophisticated ways to get nnmail-split-fancy to work
> with bbdb.
>
> I have records for people that have gnus-private values and records
> for mailing lists that have gnus-public values.  It's bbdb-gnus.el in
> bbdb.  Very straightforward stuff.

the downside is that you need to manage those gnus-private and
gnus-public values in the bbdb records.  which is a little more
work, at least.

the split-if-in-bbdb approach doesn't require you to edit any of
your bbdb records.  and it makes for a nice spam detection
heuristic.  if someone sends me mail, even if they address it
directly to me (like most spammers seem to do these days), it'll
still get split into my "other" folder instead of into my "inbox"
folder.  i need to scan my other folder's *summary* buffer
occasionally to see if any non-spam ended up there.  but if that
happens, i just select the non-spam message and type `:' to add the
sender to my bbdb.  kinda nice, i think.

btw, here is is again with a minor fix:

(defun split-if-in-bbdb (field split)
  ;; FIELD is "from" or "to" or "cc".
  ;; SPLIT is an `nnmail-split-fancy' "split" construct.
  (let ((from (message-fetch-field field)))
    (and from
	 (let ((comp (condition-case ()
			 (mail-extract-address-components from)
		       (error nil))))
	   (and comp
		(bbdb-search-simple (car comp) (cadr comp))
		split)))))

m.