On Thu, 30 Apr 2015 at  7:27:02 am BST, Glyn Millington 
<glyn.milling...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Nikolaus Rath <nikol...@rath.org> writes:
>
>> On Apr 29 2015, Nikolaus Rath <nikol...@rath.org> wrote:
>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> Is there a way to have bbdb3 automatically update the records in some
>>> (but not all) Gnus (imap) groups?
>>>
>>> I tried writing a custom function for bbdb-mua-auto-update-p whose
>>> return value depends on the active group  but I've had no luck (it seems
>>> this variable is just completely ignored).
>>
>> Glyn figured out the problem (see other thread). With
>> bbdb/gnus-update-records-p set to nil, I can set bbdb-mua-auto-update-p
>> to something like
>>
>> defun my-bbdb-select-message ()
>>   "Add people to bbdb when in certain groups."
>>   (cond ((string-match "^nnimap:INBOX" gnus-newsgroup-name)
>>          (bbdb-select-message))
>>         ((eq major-mode 'message-mode)
>>          (bbdb-select-message))
>>         (t
>>          'update)))
>>
>> ...and it actually takes effect.
>>
>>
>> Problem solved :-).
>
>
> Result!  And thank you for the function - I propose to steal that one!

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