On Thu Nov 10 2011 Thorsten wrote: > I successfully installed bbdb 3 for the use with gnus. But the default > behaviour might almost be considered a bug - the whole workflow in gnus > is destroyed by bbdb constantly asking if I want to add some post or > email author to the database. I almost never want to do that. > > Therefore I have two questions: > > 1. how can I turn this behaviour off? > > 2. is it reasonable to habe that kind of behaviour as a default? Is > there anybody who would want that?
I am sorry for the delayed reply. There is not always as much time for these things as I would like to have. I do not quite understand what you get. That is, it has been my aim to make BBDB by default "the least aggressive" (though you can customize it in many ways) There are two kind of ways for BBDB 3 to interface with MUAs such as Gnus: - interactive commands They are all controlled by bbdb-mua-update-interactive-p. So by default, unless you call these commands with a prefix arg, these commands should not query anything. - noninteractive functions By default, these functions are never invoked. You need to call first bbdb-mua-auto-update-init (usually in your init file) For these functions, the default has been "query", see bbdb-update-records-p. (But I just changed it in my development version to a yet less aggressive "search", to be submitted soon.) So unless there is a strange bug, the only way I see to get the behavior you describe, is to call bbdb-mua-auto-update-init, though it seems you do not like the behavior this initiates (indeed, me neither; but BBDB would not be BBDB without the possibility to have such a feature!) Roland PS: Admittedly, various doc strings are not yet fully up to date. I hope that soon I can submit some patches where some of these things should have improved. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a definitive record of customers, application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity, and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. IT sense. And common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-novd2d _______________________________________________ bbdb-info@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bbdb-info BBDB Home Page: http://bbdb.sourceforge.net/
