From: Drew Raines <drew@poured.net>
Subject: BBDB confused about sender
Date: Sat, 08 Feb 2003 10:48:54 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <l6v4r7eyayx.fsf@williams.mc.vanderbilt.edu> (raw)
I posted this on comp.emacs.xemacs since my BBDB is one of their
packages, but this issue may be more specific to how Gnus queries
it.
An Oort Gnus article buffer automatically pulls up the correlated
BBDB listing for each known sender and displays it in a small
windows at the bottom of the frame. I believe this is the default
behavior, because I didn't make it do that.
My problem is that BBDB gets confused when a record's name field
matches the name of an article's sender. For instance, if I have
``Foo'' in my database like so:
Foo - My friend
net: foo@bar.dom
creation-date: 14 Nov 2002
timestamp: 19 Nov 2002
but receive a message from another Foo, say Foo <foo@anotherdom.dom>,
BBDB inaccurately displays my friend Foo's record instead of
displaying nothing (because I don't know the other Foo from Adam).
So why does BBDB match on the name field only? Wouldn't `net
address' be more accurate? I didn't see a configuration variable
in Info about making BBDB match the latter explicitly. What's the
best way to fix this?
-Drew
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