Since my last suggestion for functionality met with such a constructive response (obsolete-net: thanks, Colin!), I thought I should mention something else which has been on my mental wish-list for a while: I use Rmail, as it happens (despite a long-standing intention to get around to moving over to VM someday), but I assume the other mail readers behave somewhat similarly when wired into the BBDB, so this should apply to them too. I have bbdb-use-pop-up set to true so that when I am reading a mail from someone in the BBDB, their record is displayed, suitably elided, in a small *BBDB* window. I also have bbdb-ignore-some-messages-alist set to a huge regexp which filters out all the mailing-lists I subscribe to; when I'm viewing a message whose headers match this, no BBDB record is displayed (or created) - so I get an empty *BBDB* popup window. All I want is the option to automatically hide the *BBDB* popup window if it's going to be empty. Patrick _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bbdb-info BBDB Home Page: http://bbdb.sourceforge.net/