From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Xavier Maillard Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Use BBDB for `rmail-output' ? Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2018 17:10:26 +0200 Organization: GNU's NOT Unix! Message-ID: <201806081510.w58FAQxF001486@localhost.localdomain> References: <201806080456.w584uJuG002589@localhost.localdomain> <83sh5xvkb1.fsf@gnu.org> <87efhh63g3.fsf@gmail.com> <83lgbpvd8v.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1528474077 29178 195.159.176.226 (8 Jun 2018 16:07:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2018 16:07:57 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Rmail on GNU Emacs/27.0.50 (27.0.50) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jun 08 18:07:52 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1fRJvc-0007Uq-AS for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 08 Jun 2018 18:07:52 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:36883 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fRJxj-0003tA-6B for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 08 Jun 2018 12:10:03 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:50242) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fRJp7-0005s8-1L for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 08 Jun 2018 12:01:09 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fRJp5-00009a-Q3 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 08 Jun 2018 12:01:09 -0400 Original-Received: from relay3-d.mail.gandi.net ([217.70.183.195]:46773) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fRJp0-0008Ue-PN; Fri, 08 Jun 2018 12:01:02 -0400 X-Originating-IP: 77.136.205.131 Original-Received: from localhost.localdomain (131.205.136.77.rev.sfr.net [77.136.205.131]) (Authenticated sender: xavier@maillard.im) by relay3-d.mail.gandi.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 0E18760009; Fri, 8 Jun 2018 16:01:00 +0000 (UTC) Original-Received: from localhost.localdomain (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.localdomain (8.15.2/8.15.2) with ESMTP id w58FAQ0C001487; Fri, 8 Jun 2018 17:10:26 +0200 Original-Received: (from xavier@localhost) by localhost.localdomain (8.15.2/8.15.2/Submit) id w58FAQxF001486; Fri, 8 Jun 2018 17:10:26 +0200 In-reply-to: <83lgbpvd8v.fsf@gnu.org> (message from Eli Zaretskii on Fri, 08 Jun 2018 12:28:16 +0300) Jabber-ID: xavier@maillard.im X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 217.70.183.195 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:117052 Archived-At: > Date: Fri, 08 Jun 2018 12:28:16 +0300 > From: Eli Zaretskii > > > From: Robert Pluim > > 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. -- Xavier Maillard e/j:xavier@maillard.im w:www.maillard.im m: 06 52 18 63 43 GPG: 9983 DCA1 1FAC 8DA7 653A F9AA BA49 09B7 8F04 DE1B