Re: Use BBDB for `rmail-output' ?

[Xavier Maillard]

a> From: Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com>
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> Date: Fri, 08 Jun 2018 11:19:08 +0200
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> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> 
> >> Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2018 06:56:19 +0200
> >> From: Xavier Maillard <xavier@maillard.im>
> >> 
> >> I want to hack something around BBDB and Rmail. The goal is to use a
> >> BBDB field eg. `rmail-ouput' as the target name for the function
> >> `rmail-output' function.
> >> 
> >> AFAIK, I do not see anything to do that without a piece of advice.
> >
> > You mean, if the basic requirement is to make no changes at all to
> > rmail-out itself?  In that case, you are probably right, but why would
> > we self-impose such a restriction?  If we want to support BBDB, why
> > not modify rmail-out to be capable of such support?
> >
> > (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.

Exactly. Instead of setting `rmail-output-file-alist' (which is much
more complex since one must have REGEXP knowledge), I'd rather want to
add a BBDB field.

> I subscribe to the 'big ball of emails in a single folder' theory
> myself, since searching is easy.

I am not opposed to this "theory" but I'd like to separate it a little
bit so that files do not become huge (which can be a pain at some
point). In majority, I am killing incoming messages as much as
possible (I only ouput things that I consider worth it for short/mid
or long term).

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