I have been annoyed for a while that BBDB wasn't scanning already-seen messages for new addresses. Even the `bbdb/vm-force-create' command didn't work.
After some searching, I tracked down the problem to the default value of the variable `bbdb/vm-update-records-mode', which was set to evaluate to 'searching for already-seen messages. I have no idea who set this. It doesn't make sense to me. The fix is to set this variable to 'annotating in your own .emacs file. (setq bbdb/vm-update-records-mode 'annotating) Cheers, Uday
