Re: [BBDB] ChangeLog 2012-08-01 (was: How to merge to records with identical names?)
On Wed Aug 1 2012 Roland Winkler wrote: > On Wed Aug 1 2012 Alan Schmitt wrote: > > I have a person that was entered twice in bbdb, with the same name but > > two different mails. I tried to put the cursor on one of the records and > > do a "M-x bbdb-merge-record", but when I enter the second mail address, > > I get an error: > > > > Mail address "(the current mail address)" is used by "(the name of the > > person)" > > This should be fixed now. More small changes. 2012-08-01 Roland Winkler * lisp/bbdb-com.el (bbdb-merge-records): Improve interactive call and docstring. 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/ ___ bbdb-info@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bbdb-info BBDB Home Page: http://bbdb.sourceforge.net/
[BBDB] ChangeLog 2012-08-01 (was: How to merge to records with identical names?)
On Wed Aug 1 2012 Alan Schmitt wrote: > I have a person that was entered twice in bbdb, with the same name but > two different mails. I tried to put the cursor on one of the records and > do a "M-x bbdb-merge-record", but when I enter the second mail address, > I get an error: > > Mail address "(the current mail address)" is used by "(the name of the > person)" This should be fixed now. When I last touched the code of bbdb-merge-records, the code for checking duplicates was broken. In the meanwhile this got fixed, but this check doesn't make sense while merging records. 2012-08-01 Roland Winkler * lisp/bbdb.el (bbdb-allow-duplicates, bbdb-hash-update) (bbdb-record-set-field): Fix docstring. * lisp/bbdb-com.el (bbdb-merge-records): Do not through an error when merging the old and new record results in duplicate AKAs and email addresses. 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/ ___ bbdb-info@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bbdb-info BBDB Home Page: http://bbdb.sourceforge.net/
Re: [BBDB] Changelog 2012-07-31
On Wed Aug 1 2012 Stephen Leake wrote: > Now that's fixed, but I suspect I'll still use separate records in > a case like this. For example, sm...@foo.com should have a > different work phone than j...@bar.com. But maybe I need to > experiment more. I do not quite see why an email address needs to be associated with a phone number. For some records I do have a bunch of phone numbers as well as a bunch of email addresses. But I cannot think of situations where I wanted to have something like an association list associating phone numbers with email addresses. > It would be nice to not have (home) show up in the final > email address; putting a real name in the Mail field could fix that > (assuming it overrides the real name in the record). As my example showed, you can combine canonical mail addresses sm...@foo.com with real names like "John Smith ". I do not know in which context you think of "overriding" the real name. If you send an email to sm...@foo.com, the message header will become To: John Smith no matter, what the name field of the record contains. > Perhaps a solution is to make the mail: field more structured: > > mail: 1: name: "" > mail: 1: email: sm...@example.com > mail: 2: name: "John Smith" > mail: 2: email: sm...@foo.com > mail: 3: name: "Joe Smith" > mail: 3: email: j...@bar.com > > Which would require even bigger code changes, but might be better > in the long run. First of all, this requires an incompatible change of the format of BBDB records, which I'd like to avoid. Also, I'd like to keep the user interface as simple as possible. Roland -- 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/ ___ bbdb-info@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bbdb-info BBDB Home Page: http://bbdb.sourceforge.net/
Re: [BBDB] Changelog 2012-07-31
"Roland Winkler" writes: > Part of BBDB (yes, even v2) has allowed the possibility that a mail > address in a record is not just a plain "sm...@foo.com". But the > record of, say, Johnathan Smith may also contain an RFC 822 address > such as "John Smith ". > > Jognathan Smith >phone (home): (123) 456-7890 >mail: sm...@example.com, John Smith , > Joe Smith > > Obviously, this comes handy, if you want to use different mail > addresses in a record with different real names. With BBDB v2 I always used separate records for this case, putting (home), (work) etc in the record name, because cycling thru the email addresses simply did not work properly; it always used the last one. Now that's fixed, but I suspect I'll still use separate records in a case like this. For example, sm...@foo.com should have a different work phone than j...@bar.com. But maybe I need to experiment more. It would be nice to not have (home) show up in the final email address; putting a real name in the Mail field could fix that (assuming it overrides the real name in the record). > Would it be useful if the canonical mail address "sm...@foo.com" > contained in full mail address "John Smith " was > recognized properly throughout BBDB? I suspect so, yes. Perhaps a solution is to make the mail: field more structured: mail: 1: name: "" mail: 1: email: sm...@example.com mail: 2: name: "John Smith" mail: 2: email: sm...@foo.com mail: 3: name: "Joe Smith" mail: 3: email: j...@bar.com Which would require even bigger code changes, but might be better in the long run. -- -- Stephe -- 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/ ___ bbdb-info@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bbdb-info BBDB Home Page: http://bbdb.sourceforge.net/
How to merge to records with identical names?
Hello, I have a person that was entered twice in bbdb, with the same name but two different mails. I tried to put the cursor on one of the records and do a "M-x bbdb-merge-record", but when I enter the second mail address, I get an error: Mail address "(the current mail address)" is used by "(the name of the person)" I guess I'm doing it wrong, but I don't see how to merge two records. If someone could give me a hand... Thanks, Alan -- 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/ ___ bbdb-info@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bbdb-info BBDB Home Page: http://bbdb.sourceforge.net/
[BBDB] Changelog 2012-07-31
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 " may be replaced by "John Smith ". - 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 "sm...@foo.com". But the record of, say, Johnathan Smith may also contain an RFC 822 address such as "John Smith ". Jognathan Smith phone (home): (123) 456-7890 mail: sm...@example.com, John Smith , Joe Smith 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 sm...@foo.com. But currently BBDB puts "John Smith " in the hash table which makes it really impossible to find sm...@foo.com in this table. (A hash table does not allow to search for a regexp.) Would it be useful if the canonical mail address "sm...@foo.com" contained in full mail address "John Smith " 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 * 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/ ___ bbdb-info@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bbdb-info BBDB Home Page: http://bbdb.sourceforge.net/
