I have "John Smith <...>" in bbdb, but he sometimes sends mail as "John <...>"
and then bbdb asks me to change his name to "John" (wrong) or to add
"John" as an AKA (stupid).
Solution:
--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
2012-08-21 Sam Steingold <s...@gnu.org>
* bbdb-mua.el (bbdb-annotate-message): relax name matching
diff --git a/lisp/bbdb-mua.el b/lisp/bbdb-mua.el
index 7f8e858..0711366 100644
--- a/lisp/bbdb-mua.el
+++ b/lisp/bbdb-mua.el
@@ -391,6 +391,8 @@ Return the records matching ADDRESS or nil."
(cond ((or bbdb-read-only (not name)
;; Name equals the name of the record
(bbdb-string= name old-name) ; redundant...
+ (bbdb-string= name (bbdb-record-firstname record))
+ (bbdb-string= name (bbdb-record-lastname record))
(and (equal fname (bbdb-record-firstname record)) ; possibly
(equal lname (bbdb-record-lastname record))) ; nil
;; Name equals an AKA of the record
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
Alternatively, create a user option variable, containing a list of
comparison functions which are called on name and record until one of
them returns non-nil, initial value of which would be
(list (lambda (name record) (bbdb-string= name (bbdb-record-name record)))
(lambda (name record) (bbdb-string= name (bbdb-record-firstname record)))
(lambda (name record) (bbdb-string= name (bbdb-record-lastname record)))
(lambda (name record)
(let ((fullname (bbdb-divide-name name)))
(and (equal (cdr fullname) (bbdb-record-firstname record))
(equal (car fullname) (bbdb-record-lastname record)))))
(lambda (name record) (member-ignore-case name (bbdb-record-aka record))))
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