Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2007 01:59:24 +0100
From: Aaron Kaplan [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Synchronization between bbdb and mobile phone/palm pilot?
To: bbdb-info@lists.sourceforge.net
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On Thu, 27 Dec 2007 13:23:42
On Tuesday 24 October 2006 01:24 pm, David Kågedal wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Do any of you use a BBDB database on multiple machines? I have a
laptop and a desktop, and I'd like to share my .bbdb, but I don't have
a good idea about how to do this, and I particularly don't know how to
Ronan == Ronan Waide [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Ronan On September 22, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
I have a lot of VM folders for my email, and VM provides the
capability to set up an alist for filing. So I've added a
mail-folder field to my BBDB database, and I use the
I have a lot of VM folders for my email, and VM provides the
capability to set up an alist for filing. So I've added a mail-folder
field to my BBDB database, and I use the following function to set up
VM's auto-folder alist. If the following isn't redundant with other
approaches to the same
With the rise of the spam plague, I've been finding it difficult to
figure out how to configure BBDB's auto-address snarfing.
My problem is the following: if I use bbdb-ignore-most-messages, then
I get practically nothing. But if I use bbdb-ignore-some-messages, I
end up with a BBDB clogged
I'm having a somewhat annoying problem where a mailing list
([EMAIL PROTECTED]) seems to have many print names (I'm not
sure of the right jargon for the thing that goes here
[EMAIL PROTECTED]). Is there any way I can tell BBDB to stop
trying to rename (or add an AKA for) this address?
Also, I
Yes, the KDE address book would be another good candidate.
Particularly because it syncs with a palm. I know that Jamie once
looked into doing palm-BBDB sync, but didn't like the Palm format.
I never quite followed his rationale, since things like Outlook
successfully do a lossy sync with the
Actually, there are pro's and cons to the way BBDB does mail aliases.
On the pro side, you get to see who will receive your email. On the
con side, the mail alias is stripped away and lost. This means that
you can't do anything clever anywhere else with filing the email
(based on addressees),
Alex == Alex Schroeder [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Alex Sarir Khamsi [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I would like to create a mail alias for multiple recipients, that is,
a single mail alias would be a simple mailing list. I have been unable
to figure out how to do this with BBDB
This is probably a very simple problem. BUT... I took Vladimir's
advice to use BBDB-INITIALIZE to get things going.
When I do (bbdb-initialize 'supercite) this has the following effect:
(assq 'supercite bbdb-init-forms) =
(supercite (add-hook (quote sc-load-hook) (quote bbdb-insinuate-sc)))
Is there any way to tell BBDB to ignore specific from addresses?
There are a bunch of auto-reply programs (e.g., from a bug-report or
orders system) that persist in sending me email that purports to be
from me (in terms of the name string), but with their email address.
I'd like BBDB to stop
VGI == Vladimir G Ivanovic [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
VGI Strange, I'm using BBDB 2.34 (with XEmacs 21.4.13).
VGI bbdb-ignore-some-messages-alist is defined in bbdb-hooks.el,
VGI v1.5 dated 2002/02/12 22:56:38. Is this not what you have?
VGI Have you tried using apropos? If not,
The following defun in bbdb-sc.el seems buggy:
(defun bbdb/sc-consult-attr (from)
Extract citing information from BBDB using sc-consult where
FROM is user e-mail address to look for in BBDB.
;; if logged in user sent this, use recipients.
(let ((check (if (or (null from)
I was using bbdb-copy-record to create a new record based on an old
record for someone in Australia. I found when editing the phone
numbers that the phone numbers in the old record were rejected as
unparseable and bbdb would accept only US-format phone numbers.
If I get a chance, I will try to
Here's a new version of jws' bbdb-copy-record, tweaked so that it can
correctly copy records in a database that mixes both North American
and non-North American phone numbers.
Sorry for those of you who wasted your time trying to help me. I see
that I wasn't clear enough about wanting code
Martin,
I have been using BBDB in its own frame with good results as I said.
However, I find that starting up emacs has now become a groaningly
slow process. Part of the problem, if I understand properly, is that
when I start up the bbdb frame, the form that you have been using:
(let
I have been using Martin Schwenke's stuff to put BBDB in its own frame
and I love it --- it really cuts down on the unpredictable
reformatting of my INBOX frame when I send mail back and forth.
Unfortunately, what one can't do is use the m command to send mail to
the person currently displayed,
Periodically, I get email from people who have OK addresses, but whose
email headers have rotten return addresses. For example, I have
Dr. John Mbogo, who has a perfectly good email address like
[EMAIL PROTECTED] I have this in his BBDB record. His email, though,
comes in with a reply-to
On Wed, 10 Nov 93 14:13:11 PST,
Jamie Zawinski [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
Jamie X-Windows: There's got to be a better way.
Jamie Roland McGrath wrote:
I agree, and this makes me remember that it would be real nice if bbdb
would ignore the default area code when you append one to the prompt
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