From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eric Abrahamsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Help with BBDB configuration Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2017 08:54:25 -0800 Message-ID: <8737fcpxku.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> References: <87zihkrhjq.fsf@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1487350533 3417 195.159.176.226 (17 Feb 2017 16:55:33 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2017 16:55:33 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.130014 (Ma Gnus v0.14) Emacs/26.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Feb 17 17:55:20 2017 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 1celoU-0008AM-TX for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 17 Feb 2017 17:55:19 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:54708 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1celoa-0006OK-HK for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 17 Feb 2017 11:55:24 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:32858) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1celnt-0006Mc-5a for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 17 Feb 2017 11:54:41 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1celno-0007lP-BU for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 17 Feb 2017 11:54:41 -0500 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=43407 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1celno-0007kj-56 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 17 Feb 2017 11:54:36 -0500 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1celne-0003nc-UX for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 17 Feb 2017 17:54:26 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 24 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:KEKRaM5okuH5dQGayXbuFmdjs6Q= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 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:112345 Archived-At: Narendra Joshi 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