Re: BBDB and Google

[Ross Patterson]

Richard Riley <rileyrgdev@gmail.com> writes:

> Ross Patterson <me@rpatterson.net> writes:
>
>> Richard Riley <rileyrgdev@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>>> Has anyone here successfully synced BBDB with the Gmail contact syncml
>>> server?
>>>
>>> If so can you share your secrets please!?
>>
>> I wrote my own little utility for elisp and python utility for exporting
>> gmail filter XML from BBDB gnus-private and gnus-public fields used for
>> BBDB based splitting in gnus.  They might be of some use.
>>
>> http://pypi.python.org/pypi/bbdb.gmailfilter> 
>> http://gitorious.org/bbdb-gmailfilter>
>> Ross
>>
>
> Thanks. I'm not sure I understand what the bbdb.gmailfilter is for. Can
> you give a usage example? I don't really understand the term "export
> gmail filters". Why would one export filters?

I use it to replicate my bbdb mail splitting as gmail filters.

Ross