Re: Message, Gnus and bbdb

[David Moore <dmoore@UCSD.EDU>]

dsg@linus.mitre.org (David S. Goldberg) writes:

> a mail-alias property to maintain mailing lists.  Unfortunately I
> can't seem to get bbdb-complete-name to recognize the names I put in
> these aliases, so while I can do completion/alias expansion on
> individuals, my lists are not available to me.  I realize I could just
> make separate entries for the lists, but that seems wrong somehow...


	mail-alias entries are expanded via abbrev.  So just hit SPC or
anything like that after it.  I use them both for people I mail often
and occasionally for lists (but a real list is so much nicer :).

> On another note, I don't understand how the bbdb auto-creation feature
> is supposed to work.  I've added a call to my gnus-select-group-hook
> such that a few of my nnml groups have bbdb/news-auto-create-p turned
> on.  I can verify that that works (that is, the variable is properly
> set to t in those groups, nil in all the others).  However, when I
> read new messages in these groups, nothing seems to happen with bbdb.
> I can type : or ; and be prompted to create an entry for the current
> message.  What am I missing to get the automatic stuff?  Or am I just
> misunderstanding what's supposed to happen?

You know, I think I just noticed that it hasn't been working for me
recently.  *pokes around*

Hmm, gnus-article-prepare-hook is empty.  It should not be.  I note that
bbdb-insinuate-gnus also sticks an entry in gnus-save-newsrc-hook, which
is still there.  And calling bbdb-insinuate-gnus now gets the right
value.   I don't see gnus overwriting that value, hmm.  I notice that
you're using tm too.  Hmm, I see that tm explicitly removes any
occurance of bbdb/gnus-udpate-record and seems to replace it with
tm-bbdb/update-record added to gnus-article-display-hook.  Okie, that's
there.  Oh, it uses tm-bbdb/auto-create-p, not bbdb/news-auto-create-p.

So there you go, make tm-bbdb/auto-create-p t.  *changes his .gnus*

I think I'm going to scream now.


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