>>>>> "Patrick" == Patrick Finerty, <Patrick> writes:
Patrick> I have a question about something that's been annoying me
Patrick> lately, for obvious reasons....
Patrick> How do you keep the BBDB record for a user with a
Patrick> perpetually changing email address from growing forever?
Patrick> It's only linear growth but if everyone I knew did this
Patrick> I'd go freakin' insane.
Try this:
(setq bbdb-canonicalize-net-hook (quote (lambda (addr) (cond ((string-match
"\\`\\([^0-9]+\\)\\(-dated-[^@]+\\|-[0-9]+\\|\\+[^@]+\\.[^@]+\\)\\(@.*\\)\\'" addr)
(concat (substring addr (match-beginning 1) (match-end 1)) (substring addr
(match-beginning 3) (match-end 3)))) (t addr)))))
and see
http://forums.my.gnus.org/viewtopic.php?topic=46&forum=7&0
for an explanation for these strange addresses.
Best regards,
Adrian
Patrick> For example the net field in my BBDB for Matt Armstrong
Patrick> now looks like this:
Patrick> net: [EMAIL PROTECTED],
[EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED],
[EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED],
[EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Patrick> It's ridiculous to have so many addresses in this field
Patrick> and I'd like to be able to make it stop without resorting
Patrick> to filtering email via procmail since much of what he
Patrick> writes is relevant to me.
Patrick> Nothing personal meant by this Matt. I don't understand
Patrick> why you do this but I also don't want to have a million
Patrick> addresses for you.
Patrick> -patrick
Patrick> --
Patrick> Patrick J. Finerty, Jr., Ph.D.
Patrick> Forman-Kay Laboratory
Patrick> Hospital for Sick Children
Patrick> Toronto, ON, Canada
Patrick> http://finerty.net/pjf
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