Re: Trying to get ":" key in Gnus summary to add/edit senders in BBDB (again)

Steinar Bang <[email protected]> writes:

> 'C-h v bbdb-mua-interactive-action RET' returns:
>
> bbdb-mua-interactive-action is a variable defined in ‘bbdb.el’.
>
> Its value is (search . query)
>
> Which I think looks right, based on the documentation:
>  ...
>  search       Search for existing records matching ADDRESS.
>  update       Search for existing records matching ADDRESS;
>                 update name and mail field if necessary.
>  query        Search for existing records matching ADDRESS;
>                 query for creation of a new record if the record does not exist.
>  ...
>
> Ah! It finally dawned on me what this means!
>
> Tried 'C-u :' on a message in the summary buffer with the sender not
> present in the BBDB and I was queried whether to add the sender or not.

So it looks like if you had used a value like (query . something-else)
in your original config.


Michael.