Nikolaus Rath <nikol...@rath.org> writes:

> On Apr 29 2015, Nikolaus Rath <nikol...@rath.org> wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> Is there a way to have bbdb3 automatically update the records in some
>> (but not all) Gnus (imap) groups?
>>
>> I tried writing a custom function for bbdb-mua-auto-update-p whose
>> return value depends on the active group  but I've had no luck (it seems
>> this variable is just completely ignored).
>
> Glyn figured out the problem (see other thread). With
> bbdb/gnus-update-records-p set to nil, I can set bbdb-mua-auto-update-p
> to something like
>
> defun my-bbdb-select-message ()
>   "Add people to bbdb when in certain groups."
>   (cond ((string-match "^nnimap:INBOX" gnus-newsgroup-name)
>          (bbdb-select-message))
>         ((eq major-mode 'message-mode)
>          (bbdb-select-message))
>         (t
>          'update)))
>
> ...and it actually takes effect.
>
>
> Problem solved :-).


Result!  And thank you for the function - I propose to steal that one!


atb

Glyn


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