Re: Display BBDB sender names in Gnus

On Sun, 07 Jun 2020, David Rogers writes:

> Hello
>
> I'm using BBDB with Gnus, and I'd like to find a way to
> force the Gnus summary to show each person's name as
> listed in their BBDB entry, instead of displaying
> whatever is in the "From" line of their message.
>
> Is there a reasonable/simple way that I can do that?

I *think* that you can use a user-defined
'gnus-summary-line-format' [*], and in it the
specification '%uB' should give you the name as stored
in the BBDB.



[*] https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/gnus/Summary-Buffer-Lines.html#Summary-Buffer-Lines


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