bug#54423: 29.0.50; gnus-fetch-original-field returns nil in digest

Lars Ingebrigtsen <[email protected]> Thu, 17 Mar 2022 20:43:26 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.emacs.bugs,gmane.emacs.bbdb.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Roland Winkler <[email protected]> writes:

> While I included the call of `gnus-fetch-original-field' in
> `bbdb-message-header', I need to admit that the above issue goes much
> beyond my knowledge of Gnus internals.  If there are better ways for
> `bbdb-message-header' to achieve what it needs to achieve (which is
> grabbing the content of (what appear to be) headers of a message),
> then I certainly appreciate any patches for BBDB.

If the intention is to collect data from the parent group (which is a
thing mostly just for nndoc groups), you first have to determine what
the parent group is, and then you can select the data from the buffer
that's named something like " *Original Article group.name*".

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