bbdb-deusmax README

1 Introduction

BBDB customizations.

The customizations here affect the automatic collection and updates of bbdb names.

2 Description

2.1 Swapped first-name second-name

There is certainly a lot of freedom in the email display name. Bbdb keeps trying to update the record, when names are swapped. This occurs so frequently, it quickly becomes tedious.

The function bbdb-deusmax-add-name used during a bbdb-record update, checks that the new name is not a simple swap of first-name with second-name. If it is, it stops the update process.

This simple check, will save a lot of AKA: 2nd-name 1st-name entries just to quiet the bbdb query process.

2.2 Extend bbdb-ignore

The customize variables bbdb-ignore-* control when not to grab email info to create a bbdb entry. Here the additional variables bbdb-deusmax-ignore-groups and bbdb-deusmax-ignore-group-level provide additional ignore options.

The library bbdb-mua sets, by default, the customize variable bbdb-mua-auto-update-p to bbdb-select-message. Using customize, my setup sets it to function bbdb-deusmax-select-message. This function makes use of the customize list bbdb-deusmax-ignore-groups and bbdb-deusmax-ignore-group-level.

Using these, bbdb can ignore emails for the groups:

1. matching a regex on the list or
2. At a group level and above (the higher, the less important. Default 4)

This is gnus specific as it uses gnus specific features.

3 Usage

Set the following customize variables, preferably using the customize interface:

(require 'bbdb-deusmax)
(setq bbdb-add-name 'bbdb-deusmax-add-name)
(setq bbdb-mua-auto-update-p 'bbdb-deusmax-select-message)

4 License

GPLv3 or later. See LICENSE.