Re: Wanderlust and BBDBv3

Hello,

Greg Bognar wrote:
> 
> I managed to get it work more or less as well, except for one thing.  I wanted
> BBDB to query me to create a new entry when a message arrive from an
> address not 
> already in the address book (and not in bbdb-ignore-message-alist), so I set
> 
> (setq bbdb-mua-update-interactive-p '(query . create)
>       bbdb-update-records-p 'query
>       bbdb-mua-auto-update-p 'query)
I'm on the road at the moment, so just a short note (which could be
entirely wrong ;)). I think I looked a bit into it and the problem is
that bbdb checks if it 'knows' the MUA. At some point it bails out and
doesn't insert/update the bbdb record.

I use a function that updates an attribute of a bbdb record. I added
that to the wl-message-redisplay-hook, which works for my use case. If
you don't want to fix bbdb ;) that might be a way to implement your
use case as well.


[...]
> I've learned to live with having to add addresses manually.  I think
> BBDB3 might 
> be considered abandonware, and on the long run WL users may want to
> look for an 
> alternative.  Perhaps Wanderlust's own addressbook?
Well, bbdbv3 isn't dead... yet, it's crawling slowly ;). There was a
thread about bbdbv3 earlier on this list. There we discussed some of
the shortcomings, so I don't want to re-iterate them. So far I don't
know an alternative for bbdbv3.

Regards
hmw