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From: Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Help with BBDB configuration
Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2017 08:54:25 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8737fcpxku.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87zihkrhjq.fsf@gmail.com

Narendra Joshi <narendraj9@gmail.com> writes:

> Hi,
>
> I have recently started using Gnus for email and use BBDB for contact
> management. One thing that annoys me is BBDB constantly asking me for
> new names for the same email addresses. I would like to turn off this
> feature. I would like to keep the first name or maybe add these new
> names without being prompted.
>
> I would also like to turn BBDB off in RSS feeds. BBDB adds names against
> names when I am reading articles from any RSS feed in Emacs.

BBDB provides many configuration options for controlling this behavior.
Check the docstrings of these options:

bbdb-mua-auto-update-p
bbdb-update-records-p
bbdb-add-name
bbdb-add-mails
bbdb-add-aka

HTH,
Eric




      reply	other threads:[~2017-02-17 16:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-02-17 14:57 Help with BBDB configuration Narendra Joshi
2017-02-17 16:54 ` Eric Abrahamsen [this message]

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