Re: Use BBDB for `rmail-output' ?

[Xavier Maillard <xavier@maillard.im>]

> Date: Fri, 08 Jun 2018 12:28:16 +0300
> From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
> 
> > From: Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com>
> > Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> > Date: Fri, 08 Jun 2018 11:19:08 +0200
> > 
> > > (I admit I don't understand what exactly is entailed in "using a BBDB
> > > field as a target name", so perhaps if you elaborate on that, we will
> > > find some way of doing that without changing rmailout.el.)
> > 
> > I suspect Xavier is talking about setting the output filename for
> > rmail-output based on a BBDB field.
> 
> And rmail-output-file-alist doesn't help?

It can be used for stuff like mailing-list or things like that but I
really consider it a pain to modify it each time a new
subject/topic/addressee/etc appear in my flow. Using BBDB as an helper
is much more direct in my opinion. I must confess that REGEXP is not
my cup of tea either, this could explain it.

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