I have been corresponding with a member of my family through
electronic mail. Unfortunately, this causes problems with bbdb. The
problem is that bbdb/rmail-update-record first checks the from name
against the user's name (in this case, mine), to see if the message
came from the user:
(if rmail-current-message
(or (bbdb-message-cache-lookup rmail-current-message nil)
(save-excursion
(let ((from (mail-fetch-field "from"))
name net)
(if (or (null from)
here---> (string-match (bbdb-user-mail-names)
(mail-strip-quoted-names from)))
;; if logged-in user sent this, use recipients.
(setq from (or (mail-fetch-field "to") from)))
(if from
(bbdb-encache-message rmail-current-message
(bbdb-annotate-message-sender from t
(or (bbdb-invoke-hook-for-value bbdb/mail-auto-create-p)
offer-to-create))))))))
Unfortunately, of course, my sibling's last name matches my own, and
thus bbdb is spoofed into thinking that the message to me is also FROM
me!
Has anyone else encountered this problem? Any work-arounds?
R
