>>>>> "Thomas" == Thomas E Deweese <Thomas> writes:
> Hi all,
> I recently upgraded my bbdb to 2.32, and I noticed a significant
> lossage for me. In Kodak we have wonderful e-mail addresses like:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] I had written a bbdb-create-hook that
> would query our LDAP server and fill in the bbdb record with useful
> information (like the real name, etc). However it appears that bbdb
> is now trying to do that for me based on the N449433 e-mail address
> from which it obtains the eminently useful name 'N' :)
> The annoying part is that it then overwrites the correct
> information I provided in my bbdb-create-hook. The only other place I
> could do my work is in the bbdb-change-hook, but I really don't want
> to do the LDAP lookup every time a record is changed (often undoing
> something I fixed manually), I could add a field when I do my lookup
> so I only do the lookup the first time the change hook is called, but
> all this seems like a lot of work to fix the fact that BBDB is
> overwriting the stuff I provide in my bbdb-create-hook.
> So I would like to lobby that bbdb-create-hook be called after BBDB
> is done doing all of it's own record creation. Thus my code can
> choose to either leave the BBDB provided info alone or overwrite it
> with 'better' information.
If you use BBDB and LDAP regularly, consider EUDC (Emacs Unified Directory
Client) which provides a unified query interface to BBDB/LDAP/PH-QI with some
goodies such as BBDB record creation from directory queries.
Oscar Figueiredo
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