On Sun, May 08 2011, Roland Winkler wrote:

> On Sun May 8 2011 Leo wrote:
>> 
>> I am using latest No Gnus from Emacs-24 (trunk). It seems if a header
>> field in Gnus is hidden, bbdb-message-header return nil. I don't know if
>> this is intended.
>> 
>> I use the following patch in my local BBDB copy.
>
> I am not a Gnus expert. gnus-fetch-field was used already by BBDB
> v2. Is there someone reading this list who knows the (intended)
> difference between gnus-fetch-field and gnus-fetch-original-field?

[ Cc-ing ding@gnus. ]  I don't know.  The doc strings need
improvement.

> Well, the latter uses the undocumented internal variable
> gnus-original-article-buffer. But what does this mean in real life?

I guess `gnus-original-article-buffer' holds encoded content.  Yes...

  (gnus-fetch-field "From")          -> "... (Peter Münster)"
  (gnus-fetch-original-field "From") -> "... (Peter =?utf-8?Q?M=C3=BCnster?=)"

> Which headers are not available via gnus-fetch-field?

As you might have guessed, this is customizable in Gnus.  See (info
"(gnus)Hiding Headers").

>> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
>>  lisp/bbdb-mua.el |    4 ++--
>>  1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
[...]
>>    (let* ((mua (bbdb-mua))
>> -         (val (cond ((eq mua 'gnus) (gnus-fetch-field header))
>> +         (val (cond ((eq mua 'gnus) (gnus-fetch-original-field header))
>>                      ((eq mua 'vm) (bbdb/vm-header header))
>>                      ((eq mua 'rmail) (bbdb/rmail-header header))
>>                      ((eq mua 'mh) (bbdb/mh-header header))
>> 
>> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

Bye, Reiner.
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