* Searching BBDB by mail-alias
@ 2007-01-04 14:09 Sebastian Tennant
0 siblings, 0 replies; 5+ messages in thread
From: Sebastian Tennant @ 2007-01-04 14:09 UTC (permalink / raw)
Hi all,
I'm using Gnus' message-mode and BBDB's mail-alias field to provide
mailing lists functionality.
Having created a mail-alias ('family' for instance) and assigned it to
a number of different entries, does anyone know of a way to tell BBDB
to list just those entries with the 'family' mail-alias?
'b' searches various different database fields but not mail-alias.
Happy New Year by the way.
Sebastian
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* Re: Searching BBDB by mail-alias
2007-01-04 16:20 ` Charles philip Chan
2007-01-04 16:47 ` Thomas Gerds
@ 2007-01-05 9:00 ` Sebastian Tennant
1 sibling, 0 replies; 5+ messages in thread
From: Sebastian Tennant @ 2007-01-05 9:00 UTC (permalink / raw)
Quoth "Charles philip Chan" <cpchan@sympatico.ca>:
> On 4 Jan 2007, sebyte@smolny.plus.com wrote:
>
>> does anyone know of a way to tell BBDB to list just those entries with
>> the 'family' mail-alias?
>
> Yes. use bbdb-query which I can't seem find on the Internet
> anymore. Since my Usenet nost does not allow attachments, I will send
> you a copy privately.
I fear I may have deleted your email in a careless spam purge. Sure
enough, a Google search for 'bbdb-query' does not throw up any clearly
identifiable leads so it'd be great if you could send me it again.
Thanks, and sorry for the hassle,
Sebastian
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* Re: Searching BBDB by mail-alias
2007-01-04 16:47 ` Thomas Gerds
@ 2007-01-05 8:52 ` Sebastian Tennant
0 siblings, 0 replies; 5+ messages in thread
From: Sebastian Tennant @ 2007-01-05 8:52 UTC (permalink / raw)
Quoth Thomas Gerds <gerds@fdm.uni-freiburg.de>:
> hi,
>
> here is some code that allows you to search all fields for which there
> is no special search utility. for example,
>
> M-x bbdb-field RET
> mail-alias RET
> . RET
>
> lists all records that have a mail-alias.
>
> (defun bbdb-field (field string elidep)
> "Display all entries in the BBDB matching the regexp STRING in the field field."
> (interactive "xField where to search : \nsRegular Expression for Search: \nP")
> (let* ((target (cons field string))
> (bbdb-elided-display (bbdb-grovel-elide-arg elidep))
> (recs (bbdb-search (bbdb-records) nil nil nil target)))
> (bbdb-display-records recs)
> recs))
Many thanks Thomas. Your code works a treat.
Sebastian
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* Re: Searching BBDB by mail-alias
2007-01-04 16:20 ` Charles philip Chan
@ 2007-01-04 16:47 ` Thomas Gerds
2007-01-05 8:52 ` Sebastian Tennant
2007-01-05 9:00 ` Sebastian Tennant
1 sibling, 1 reply; 5+ messages in thread
From: Thomas Gerds @ 2007-01-04 16:47 UTC (permalink / raw)
hi,
here is some code that allows you to search all fields for which there
is no special search utility. for example,
M-x bbdb-field RET
mail-alias RET
. RET
lists all records that have a mail-alias.
(defun bbdb-field (field string elidep)
"Display all entries in the BBDB matching the regexp STRING in the field field."
(interactive "xField where to search : \nsRegular Expression for Search: \nP")
(let* ((target (cons field string))
(bbdb-elided-display (bbdb-grovel-elide-arg elidep))
(recs (bbdb-search (bbdb-records) nil nil nil target)))
(bbdb-display-records recs)
recs))
best,
tomy
"Charles philip Chan" <cpchan@sympatico.ca> writes:
> On 4 Jan 2007, sebyte@smolny.plus.com wrote:
>
>> does anyone know of a way to tell BBDB to list just those entries
> with
>> the 'family' mail-alias?
>
> Yes. use bbdb-query which I can't seem find on the Internet
> anymore. Since my Usenet nost does not allow attachments, I will send
> you a copy privately.
>
> Charles
>
> --
> # Basic IBM dingbats, some of which will never have a purpose clear
> # to mankind
> linux-2.4.0/drivers/char/cp437.uni
--
very nice signature
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* Re: Searching BBDB by mail-alias
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@ 2007-01-04 16:20 ` Charles philip Chan
2007-01-04 16:47 ` Thomas Gerds
2007-01-05 9:00 ` Sebastian Tennant
0 siblings, 2 replies; 5+ messages in thread
From: Charles philip Chan @ 2007-01-04 16:20 UTC (permalink / raw)
On 4 Jan 2007, sebyte@smolny.plus.com wrote:
> does anyone know of a way to tell BBDB to list just those entries with
> the 'family' mail-alias?
Yes. use bbdb-query which I can't seem find on the Internet
anymore. Since my Usenet nost does not allow attachments, I will send
you a copy privately.
Charles
--
# Basic IBM dingbats, some of which will never have a purpose clear
# to mankind
linux-2.4.0/drivers/char/cp437.uni
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