Ekkehard Görlach wrote: > > I have "customized" the variable bbdb-north-american-phone-numbers-p > to nil. Now phone numbers like +1 213 457 8765 or +49 69 3129871 are > accepted. Did set that one ... no change in behaviour. bbdb seems to want to truncate a number. Here the message after trying to set: "phone: 06234929329" Arithmetic range error: "truncate", 6234929329.0 ray