Hello, I am having a problem with BBDB when attempting to burst a digest message where a message author is in the BBDB (trace below). What should happen is that bbdb/gnus-summary-get-author simply indicates that the user is known to the BBDB (with a *). Clearly, there is something amiss with the function or with the BBDB entry, but I don't see anything obviously wrong with the BBDB entry. This was happening with version 2.32 as well. Thanks, Jack Vinson Emacs : GNU Emacs 20.7.1 (i386-*-windows95.1212) of Tue Jun 13 2000 on buffy Package: BBDB 2.33 Gnus: version 5.8.8 current state: ============== (setq emacs-version "20.7.1" bbdb-version-date "$Date: 2001/05/21 11:36:47 $" bbdb-file-format 6 bbdb-no-duplicates-p nil bbdb-after-change-hook '(bbdb/gnus-score-invalidate-alist) bbdb-after-read-db-hook nil bbdb-always-add-addresses nil bbdb-auto-notes-alist '(("From" ("@keds.com" company "Knowledge Express Data Systems") ("ht.com" company "Hewlett Packard") ("pppl.gov" company "Princeton Plasma Physics Lab") ("wpafb.af.mil" company "Wright Patterson AFB") ("gsfc.nasa.gov" company "Goddard Space Flight Center") ) ("Cc" ("bbdb@" . "BBDB mailing list") ("supercite@" . "SuperCite list") ("ding@ifi" . "Ding mailing list") ("qphysics@" . "Qphysics list") ("veg@flevel" . "Vegetarian list") ("[EMAIL PROTECTED]" . "NTemacs list") ("tandem@hobbes" . "Tandem mailing list") ("[EMAIL PROTECTED]" . "CAST list") ("[EMAIL PROTECTED]" . "CAST list") ("[EMAIL PROTECTED]" . "BikeChi") ("[EMAIL PROTECTED]" . "EBC") ("[EMAIL PROTECTED]" . "Midwest Rides List") ("[EMAIL PROTECTED]" . "CCC") ("[EMAIL PROTECTED]" . "CATS") ("[EMAIL PROTECTED]" . "ThinkDB") ("[EMAIL PROTECTED]" . "Veggie") ("[EMAIL PROTECTED]" . "DateBook") ("[EMAIL PROTECTED]" . "RoboRally") ("[EMAIL PROTECTED]" . "Watchers") ("@chicagoaa.org" . "CASO email")) ("To" ("bbdb@" . "BBDB mailing list") ("supercite@" . "SuperCite list") ("ding@ifi" . "Ding mailing list") ("qphysics@" . "Qphysics list") ("veg@flevel" . "Vegetarian list") ("[EMAIL PROTECTED]" . "NTemacs list") ("tandem@hobbes" . "Tandem mailing list") ("[EMAIL PROTECTED]" . "CAST list") ("[EMAIL PROTECTED]" . "CAST list") ("[EMAIL PROTECTED]" . "BikeChi") ("[EMAIL PROTECTED]" . "EBC") ("[EMAIL PROTECTED]" . "Midwest Rides List") ("[EMAIL PROTECTED]" . "CCC") ("[EMAIL PROTECTED]" . "CATS") ("[EMAIL PROTECTED]" . "ThinkDB") ("[EMAIL PROTECTED]" . "Veggie") ("[EMAIL PROTECTED]" . "DateBook") ("[EMAIL PROTECTED]" . "RoboRally") ("[EMAIL PROTECTED]" . "Watchers") ("@chicagoaa.org" . "CASO email")) ("Organization" (".*" company 0))) bbdb-auto-revert-p nil bbdb-canonicalize-net-hook '(lambda (addr) (cond ((string-match "\\`\\([^@]+@\\).*\\.\\(CS\\.CMU\\.EDU\\)\\'" addr) (concat (substring addr (match-beginning 1) (match-end 1)) (substring addr (match-beginning 2) (match-end 2)) ) ) ((string-match "\\`\\([^@]+@\\)\\(blue\\|red\\|widget\\|stipple\\|be\\|mosh\\|twist\\|home\\|emily\\|sunrise\\|pheugal\\|lindy\\)\\.seas\\.upenn\\.edu\\'" addr) (concat (substring addr (match-beginning 1) (match-end 1)) "eniac.seas.upenn.edu") ) ((string-match "\\`\\([^@]+@\\)\\(linus\\|groucho\\|buster\\|schroeder\\|dusty\\|lucy\\)\\.informatik\\.uni-dortmund\\.de\\'" addr) (concat (substring addr (match-beginning 1) (match-end 1)) "woodstock.informatik.uni-dortmund.de") ) ((string-match "\\`\\([^@]+@\\)\\(spectrum\\|mauve\\|pleiades\\)\\.cs\\.bucknell\\.edu\\'" addr) (concat (substring addr (match-beginning 1) (match-end 1)) "ursa.cs.bucknell.edu") ) ((string-match "\\`\\([^@]+@\\)\\(mail\\|mail.\\)\\.sas\\.upenn\\.edu\\'" addr) (concat (substring addr (match-beginning 1) (match-end 1)) "sas.upenn.edu") ) ((string-match "\\`\\([^@]+@\\).*\\.\\(me\\.calpoly\\.edu\\)\\'" addr) (concat (substring addr (match-beginning 1) (match-end 1)) (substring addr (match-beginning 2) (match-end 2)) ) ) ((string-match "\\`\\([^@]+@\\).*\\.\\(cs\\.wisc\\.edu\\)\\'" addr) (concat (substring addr (match-beginning 1) (match-end 1)) (substring addr (match-beginning 2) (match-end 2)) ) ) ((string-match "\\`\\(kuehl+@\\).*\\.\\(uni-konstanz.de\\)\\'" addr) "[EMAIL PROTECTED]") (t addr)) ) bbdb-canonicalize-redundant-nets-p t bbdb-case-fold-search t bbdb-change-hook 'bbdb-timestamp-hook bbdb-completion-display-record nil bbdb-completion-type nil bbdb-create-hook 'bbdb-creation-date-hook bbdb-default-area-code 847 bbdb-default-domain nil bbdb-define-all-aliases-field 'mail-alias bbdb-dial-local-prefix nil bbdb-dial-local-prefix-alist '(((if bbdb-default-area-code (format "(%03d)" bbdb-default-area-code) "") "") ) bbdb-dial-long-distance-prefix nil bbdb-dwim-net-address-allow-redundancy nil bbdb-electric-p nil bbdb-elided-display nil bbdb-elided-display-fields nil bbdb-elided-display-name-end 48 bbdb-extract-address-component-handler 'message bbdb-extract-address-component-ignore-regexp "\\(\\(undisclosed\\|unlisted\\)[^,]*recipients\\)\\|no To-header on input" bbdb-extract-address-component-regexps '(("\"'\\([^\"]*\\)'\"\\s-*<\\([^>]+\\)>" (bbdb-clean-username (match-string 1 adstring) ) 2) ("\"\\([^\"]*\\)\"\\s-*<\\([^>]+\\)>" (bbdb-clean-username (match-string 1 adstring) ) 2) ("\\(\\b[^<,]*\\b\\)\\s-*<\\([^>]+\\)>" 1 2) ("<\\([^>]+\\)>" nil 2) ("\\(\\b[^<\",()]+\\b\\)\\s-*(\\([^)]+\\))" 2 1) ("\\b\\(\\([^@]+\\.[^@]+\\)@[0-9a-z._-]+\\)\\b" (bbdb-clean-username (match-string 2 adstring) ) 1) ("\\b\\(\\([0-9a-z._-]+\\)@[0-9a-z._-]+\\)\\b" nil 1) ("\\b\\([0-9a-z._-]+\\)\\b" nil 1)) bbdb-file "C:/.bbdb" bbdb-file-remote nil bbdb-file-remote-save-always t bbdb-finger-host-field 'finger-host bbdb-get-addresses-from-headers '("From" "Resent-From" "Reply-To") bbdb-get-addresses-headers '("From" "Resent-From" "Reply-To" "Resent-To" "Resent-CC" "To" "CC" "BCC") bbdb-get-addresses-to-headers '("Resent-To" "Resent-CC" "To" "CC" "BCC") bbdb-get-only-first-address-p nil bbdb-gui nil bbdb-hashtable-size 1021 bbdb-ignore-most-messages-alist nil bbdb-ignore-selected-messages-confirmation nil bbdb-ignore-some-messages-alist '(("From" . "InSync Online") ("From" . "daemon") ("From" . "mailer-daemon") ("From" . "delivery system") ("From" . "postmaster") ("From" . "listmaster") ("From" . "post office") ("From" . "root") ("From" . "unknown") ("From" . "operator") ("From" . "delivery") ("From" . "administ") ("From" . "via the vacation program") ("From" . "hotmail.com") ("From" . "^$")) bbdb-info-file nil bbdb-initialize-hook nil bbdb-list-hook nil bbdb-load-hook '((lambda nil (load "bbdb-extras"))) bbdb-message-caching-enabled t bbdb-message-marker-field 'mark-char bbdb-mode-hook nil bbdb-new-nets-always-primary nil bbdb-north-american-phone-numbers-p t bbdb-notes-default-separator ", " bbdb-notes-sort-order '((notes . 0) (www . 1) (ftp . 2) (gopher . 3) (telnet . 4) (mail-alias . 5) (mail-folder . 6) (lpr . 7) (creation-date . 1000) (timestamp . 1001)) bbdb-notice-auto-save-file nil bbdb-notice-hook '(bbdb-auto-notes-hook) bbdb-offer-save t bbdb-pop-up-elided-display nil bbdb-pop-up-target-lines 5 bbdb-quiet-about-name-mismatches nil bbdb-readonly-p nil bbdb-refile-notes-default-merge-function 'bbdb-refile-notes-default-merge-function bbdb-refile-notes-generate-alist '((creation-date . bbdb-refile-notes-string-least) (timestamp . bbdb-refile-notes-string-most) ) bbdb-save-db-timeout 0 bbdb-send-mail-style nil bbdb-silent-running nil bbdb-use-alternate-names t bbdb-user-mail-names "jvinson@.*" bbdb-write-file-hooks '(bbdb-write-file-hook-fn) bbdb/gnus-lines-and-from-length 18 bbdb/gnus-split-crosspost-default nil bbdb/gnus-split-default-group "mail.misc" bbdb/gnus-split-myaddr-regexp "^Valued Sony Customer$\\|^Valued Sony Customer@\\([-a-z0-9]+\\.\\)*yahoo.com$" bbdb/gnus-split-nomatch-function nil bbdb/gnus-split-private-field 'gnus-private bbdb/gnus-split-public-field 'gnus-public bbdb/gnus-summary-mark-known-posters t bbdb/gnus-summary-show-bbdb-names t bbdb/mail-auto-create-p t bbdb/news-auto-create-p 'bbdb-ignore-some-messages-hook bbdb/vm-set-auto-folder-alist-field 'vm-folder features '(reporter debug gnus-cus view tmm electric gnus-dup mailalias smtpmail time-stamp ispell supercite regi gin-mode browse-url html-mode jsp-html-helper-mode asp-html-helper-mode php-html-helper-mode html-helper-mode tempo cc-mode cc-cmds cc-styles cc-align cc-langs cc-engine cc-vars cc-defs derived cc-menus bookmark pp bbdb-hooks sort gnus-cite gnus-async gnus-score score-mode mail-extr gnus-ml gnus-msg bbdb-gnus bbdb-snarf nntp nndoc env pop3 nnslashdot nnweb w3-forms w3 w3-menu url-cookie url-cache url-news url-gw w3-java w3-script w3-jscript w3-elisp cus-edit cus-start cus-load w3-emulate w3-auto w3-parse url md5 mm w3-display w3-mouse w3-imap w3-widget w3-vars w3-keyword w3-cus url-parse url-vars css font devices ange-ftp comint ring mule-sysdp mini-cl cl cl-19 w3-cfg w3-sysdp nnfolder nndraft nnmh nnml nnoo gnus-cache gnus-art mm-uu wid-edit mm-view gnus-sum gnus-topic gnus-group gnus-undo nnmail mail-source format-spec gnus-start gnus-range gnus-spec gnus-int gnus-win gnus gnus-ems byte-optimize bytecomp byte-compile backquote mailabbrev sendmail bbdb-com bbdb timezone message mml easymenu mm-decode mm-encode mailcap mm-bodies uudecode mail-parse rfc2045 rfc2231 rfc2047 qp ietf-drums mailheader gnus-util time-date parse-time nnheader mail-utils mm-util mail-prsvr timer time font-lock regexp-opt cus-face jka-compr uniquify bbdb-autoloads advice advice-preload fontset ediff-hook vc-hooks lisp-float-type dos-w32 disp-table ls-lisp lisp-mode page menu-bar select scroll-bar mouse facemenu faces frame romanian slovak czech slovenian case-table base64 format mule custom widget) ) Signaling: (wrong-type-argument listp ["Gene" "Grubbs" nil nil nil nil ("[EMAIL PROTECTED]") "Tandem mailing list" ["Gene Grubbs" "grubbsgene" #<marker at 264396 in .bbdb> nil]]) bbdb/gnus-summary-get-author([26 " Frame Warranties: I have a 1989 Burley warranty card" "\"Gene Grubbs\" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>" "Fri, 4 May 2001 18:18:57 -0700" "<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>" nil 0 63 nil ((To . "<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,"))]) gnus-user-format-function-d([26 " Frame Warranties: I have a 1989 Burley warranty card" "\"Gene Grubbs\" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>" "Fri, 4 May 2001 18:18:57 -0700" "<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>" nil 0 63 nil ((To . "<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,"))]) (eval (gnus-user-format-function-d gnus-tmp-header)) (let ((val ...)) (if (> ... 20) (substring val 0 20) val)) (format "%c%4d: %-20s%c" gnus-tmp-opening-bracket gnus-tmp-lines (let (...) (if ... ... val)) gnus-tmp-closing-bracket) (insert (format "%c%4d: %-20s%c" gnus-tmp-opening-bracket gnus-tmp-lines (let ... ...) gnus-tmp-closing-bracket)) (progn (insert (format "%c%4d: %-20s%c" gnus-tmp-opening-bracket gnus-tmp-lines ... gnus-tmp-closing-bracket)) (point)) (gnus-put-text-property (point) (progn (insert ...) (point)) gnus-mouse-face-prop gnus-mouse-face) (progn (insert gnus-tmp-unread gnus-tmp-replied gnus-tmp-score-char gnus-tmp-indentation) (gnus-put-text-property (point) (progn ... ...) gnus-mouse-face-prop gnus-mouse-face) (insert " " gnus-tmp-subject-or-nil "\n")) eval((progn (insert gnus-tmp-unread gnus-tmp-replied gnus-tmp-score-char gnus-tmp-indentation) (gnus-put-text-property (point) (progn ... ...) gnus-mouse-face-prop gnus-mouse-face) (insert " " gnus-tmp-subject-or-nil "\n"))) gnus-summary-prepare-threads((([1 "Fw: Demo day" "\"MBS Tandems\" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>" "Thu, 3 May 2001 21:42:15 -0700" "<001f01c0d454$98b34240$96d0fea9@vandevelde2>" nil 0 9 nil ...]) ("Re: Replacing broken spokes on the road/tour " ([2 "Re: Replacing broken spokes on the road/tour " "\"Gear-To-Go Tandems\" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>" "Thu, 3 May 2001 22:11:14 -0400" "<00a101c0d43f$7f755d00$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>" nil 0 37 nil ...]) ([8 "Re: Replacing broken spokes on the road/tour " "\"Ed Downing\" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>" "Fri, 4 May 2001 07:26:35 -5" "<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>" nil 0 20 nil ...]) ([14 "Re: Replacing broken spokes on the road/tour" "Mark Hornblower <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>" "Fri, 4 May 2001 10:00:16 -0400" "<p05100301b71866328036@[24.226.80.52]>" nil 0 27 nil ...]) ([15 "Re: Replacing broken spokes on the road/tour" "alex wetmore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>" "Fri, 4 May 2001 08:35:26 -0700 (PDT)" "<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>" nil 0 29 nil ...]! ) ([19 "Re: Replacing broken spokes on the road/tour " "\"Ed Downing\" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>" "Fri, 4 May 2001 12:24:32 -5" "<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>" nil 0 23 nil ...]) ([23 "Re: Replacing broken spokes on the road/tour " "\"Eric Salathe\" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>" "Fri, 4 May 2001 11:25:15 -0700" "<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>" nil 0 24 nil ...])) ([3 "Re: travel in Banff/Jasper, BC & in Olympia National Forest and Seattle off islands" "\"Ken Iisaka\" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>" "Thu, 3 May 2001 23:17:33 -0700" "<01f501c0d461$e836de00$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>" nil 0 33 nil ...]) ([4 "Re: Replacing broken spokes on the road/tour > You can generally remove " "James D Annan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>" "Fri, 04 May 2001 08:44:10 +0000" "<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>" nil 0 19 nil ...]) ("Re: hugi / coda hub question" ([5 "hugi / coda hub question" "\"Clive George\" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>" "Fri, 4 May 2001 10:58:21 +0100" "<000301c0d480$c347f830$[EMAIL PROTECTED]! .co.uk>" nil 0 14 nil ...]) ([6 "Re: hugi / coda hub question" "Hans Christoph Timm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>" "Fri, 04 May 2001 12:05:15 +0200" "<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>" nil 0 17 nil nil])) ("Re: Puncture proof Tire" ([7 "Re: Puncture proof Tire" "\"Clive George\" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>" "Fri, 4 May 2001 11:15:59 +0100" "<004301c0d483$38311940$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>" nil 0 16 nil ...]) ([10 "Re: Puncture proof Tire" "\"Gear-To-Go Tandems\" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>" "Fri, 4 May 2001 08:17:48 -0400" "<00d801c0d494$3ba08dc0$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>" nil 0 41 nil ...])) ([9 "Re: Replacing broken spokes on the road/tour > You can " "Lynn and Roger Brucker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>" "Fri, 04 May 2001 07:32:07 -0400" "<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>" nil 0 13 nil ...]) ("Re: Broken Pawl on PW, how strong are they?" ([11 "Broken Pawl on PW, how strong are they?" "\"Arlyn Aronson\" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>" "Fri, 4 May 2001 07:42:15 -0500" "<009701c0d497$cc5! 756c0$cabc2140@74wp901>" nil 0 39 nil ...]) ([13 "Re: Broken Pawl on PW, how strong are they?" "\"Gear-To-Go Tandems\" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>" "Fri, 4 May 2001 08:58:55 -0400" "<010901c0d499$f9ff0b20$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>" nil 0 32 nil ...]) ([17 "Re: Broken Pawl on PW, how strong are they?" "Peter Jon White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>" "Fri, 04 May 2001 12:13:15 -0400" "<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>" nil 0 40 nil ...]) ([21 "Re: Broken Pawl on PW, how strong are they?" "alex wetmore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>" "Fri, 4 May 2001 09:48:46 -0700 (PDT)" "<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>" nil 0 48 nil ...]) ([22 "Re: Broken Pawl on PW, how strong are they?" "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" "Fri, 04 May 2001 18:11:03 +0000" "<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>" nil 0 46 nil ...]) ([24 "Re: Broken Pawl on PW, how strong are they?" "Peter Jon White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>" "Fri, 04 May 2001 14:40:09 -! 0400" "<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>" nil 0 38 nil ...]) ([25 "Re: Broken Pawl on PW, how strong are they?" "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" "Fri, 04 May 2001 15:10:36 EDT" "<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>" nil 0 12 nil ...])) ([12 "remove the drum in reverse?" "\"Arlyn Aronson\" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>" "Fri, 4 May 2001 07:41:56 -0500" "<009601c0d497$cb4327a0$cabc2140@74wp901>" nil 0 47 nil ...]) ("RE: BOB-BUGGER" ([16 "RE: BOB-BUGGER" "\"Alan Felsen\" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>" "Fri, 4 May 2001 12:06:43 -0400" "<006701c0d4b4$372446e0$3414fea9@oemcomputer>" nil 0 18 nil ...]) ([18 "RE: BOB-BUGGER" "\"Ledbetter, Scott E\" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>" "Fri, 4 May 2001 10:13:48 -0600 " "<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>" nil 0 30 nil ...])) ([20 "Duck Tape (Was:Replacing broken spokes on the road/tour)" "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" "Fri, 04 May 2001 16:40:51 +0000" "<[EMAIL PROTECTED]! t.net>" nil 0 23 nil ...]) ([26 " Frame Warranties: I have a 1989 Burley warranty card" "\"Gene Grubbs\" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>" "Fri, 4 May 2001 18:18:57 -0700" "<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>" nil 0 63 nil ...]) ([27 "They're here..." "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" "Sat, 05 May 2001 00:49:25 +0000" "<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>" nil 0 8 nil ...]))) gnus-summary-prepare() gnus-summary-read-group-1("nndoc:nnml:tandem-17977" t t nil nil nil) gnus-summary-read-group("nndoc:nnml:tandem-17977" t t nil nil nil nil) gnus-group-read-group(t t "nndoc:nnml:tandem-17977" nil) _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bbdb-info BBDB Home Page: http://bbdb.sourceforge.net/