The patch below gives some minor improvements for bbdb-complete-mail. - Cycle even if the record contains only one mail address, yet bbdb-dwim-mail gives us something different from what we have. For example, a message header "JOHN SMITH <[email protected]>" may be replaced by "John Smith <[email protected]>".
- Search correctly for RFC 822 addresses containing a full name. The latter change revealed another unexpected surprise with BBDB: Part of BBDB (yes, even v2) has allowed the possibility that a mail address in a record is not just a plain "[email protected]". But the record of, say, Johnathan Smith may also contain an RFC 822 address such as "John Smith <[email protected]>". Jognathan Smith phone (home): (123) 456-7890 mail: [email protected], John Smith <[email protected]>, Joe Smith <[email protected]> Obviously, this comes handy, if you want to use different mail addresses in a record with different real names. But this feature has been implemented rather incompletely. To make this work properly, the hash table should always use canonical addresses such as [email protected]. But currently BBDB puts "John Smith <[email protected]>" in the hash table which makes it really impossible to find [email protected] in this table. (A hash table does not allow to search for a regexp.) Would it be useful if the canonical mail address "[email protected]" contained in full mail address "John Smith <[email protected]>" was recognized properly throughout BBDB? This will require many calls of `mail-extract-address-components' upon startup and elsewhere, too. I do not expect this to become a serious bottleneck. But I'd have to look through the code a bit more carefully to identify all spots that need to be changed. Oh well... 2012-07-31 Roland Winkler <[email protected]> * lisp/bbdb-com.el (bbdb-complete-mail): When a single record matches, analyze more carefully which mail address to use. Cycle even if the record contains only one mail address, yet bbdb-dwim-mail gives us something different from what we have. Search correctly for RFC 822 addresses containing a full name. BBDB is available at http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/bbdb/ To check it out, use git clone git://git.savannah.nongnu.org/bbdb.git ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ _______________________________________________ [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bbdb-info BBDB Home Page: http://bbdb.sourceforge.net/
