Len Trigg wrote: > > Robert Widhopf-Fenk wrote: > > > No, but maybe you just want to ignore the messages which go > > > to the mailing list. > > I tried setting things up this way and, it doesn't work for me. > > I have bbdb/mail-auto-create-p and bbdb/news-auto-create-p both set to > nil, so that new bbdb records are never created based on viewing email > (to stop being pestered about junk addresses when spam comes in). I > have instead configured wanderlust to automatically create new bbdb > records only on outgoing emails. > > BBDB records for existing addresses do get updated when viewing email > though, and that's when I want to suppress the name updating.
This sounds pretty similar to my setup - I have gone away from bothering with bbdb-ignore-* altogether, and instead plumped for setting auto-create-p to nil and putting up with making the occasional new record by hand (with ':', in rmail). But what you are asking for sounds sufficiently close to what I get with the following: (setq bbdb-quiet-about-name-mismatches 1) that I think you could live with it - it does apply to all records, but at least like this you see a brief message about any mismatch so you are aware of it. The Right BBDB Way to support your exact requirement would seem to be to over-egg bbdb-quiet-about-name-mismatches still further - so that if it is set to a function symbol that function is called and the result acted on (true, nil, or number of seconds to display a message for) - and then your implementation of the function could look for your special 'readonly field in order to decide what to do. On a related note my setting of bbdb-always-add-addresses is a function which arranges that mismatched email addresses for existing records are only added from my RMAIL inbox, and never when I am looking at a different mailbox - thus looking at historic mailboxes occasionally does not reclutter records unnecessarily. I have in the past tried to tinker with bbdb-readonly-p to provide this sort of behaviour but never got it to work in a way that I found useful. Patrick ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ bbdb-info@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bbdb-info BBDB Home Page: http://bbdb.sourceforge.net/
