Re: Update records in some Gnus groups

2015-04-30 Thread Glyn Millington
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

Re: Update records in some Gnus groups

2015-04-30 Thread Phil Hudson
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)

Re: Update records in some Gnus groups

2015-04-30 Thread Eric Abrahamsen
Eric Abrahamsen e...@ericabrahamsen.net writes: Phil Hudson phil.hud...@iname.com writes: 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

Re: Update records in some Gnus groups

2015-04-30 Thread Eric Abrahamsen
Phil Hudson phil.hud...@iname.com writes: 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

Re: bbdb3 won't stop auto-updating records

2015-04-30 Thread Phil Hudson
On Thu, 30 Apr 2015 at 2:51:52 am BST, Nikolaus Rath nikol...@rath.org wrote: I'm a little flabbergasted by this though. Why is there a need for a fallback in the first place? I think nil should be interpreted like the documentation say: do nothing. I agree. We have a breach! A breach of the

Re: bbdb3 won't stop auto-updating records

2015-04-30 Thread Glyn Millington
Phil Hudson phil.hud...@iname.com writes: On Tue, 28 Apr 2015 at 10:34:32 am BST, Phil Hudson phil.hud...@iname.com wrote: The term mail alias itself seems to me to be poorly chosen, Replying to myself... I've thought of one, namely Gnus' use of group (meaning/derived from newsgroup) for

Re: bbdb3 won't stop auto-updating records

2015-04-30 Thread Eric Abrahamsen
Glyn Millington glyn.milling...@gmail.com writes: Phil Hudson phil.hud...@iname.com writes: On Tue, 28 Apr 2015 at 10:34:32 am BST, Phil Hudson phil.hud...@iname.com wrote: The term mail alias itself seems to me to be poorly chosen, Replying to myself... I've thought of one, namely Gnus'

Re: bbdb3 won't stop auto-updating records

2015-04-30 Thread Phil Hudson
On Tue, 28 Apr 2015 at 10:34:32 am BST, Phil Hudson phil.hud...@iname.com wrote: The term mail alias itself seems to me to be poorly chosen, bespeaking an inward-looking, comp-sci-technical, historical reasons (IOW no reason) viewpoint rather than an outward-looking, user- and

Re: Update records in some Gnus groups

2015-04-30 Thread Roland Winkler
On Thu Apr 30 2015 Eric Abrahamsen wrote: Best yet, let's simplify BBDB's whole noticing mechanism, and _then_ write a manual for it. *ducks* Suggestions welcome. This code used to be yet much messier. However it should cover a rather diverse spectrum of use cases.