Re: Use BBDB for `rmail-output' ?

[Robert Pluim]

Xavier Maillard <xavier@maillard.im> writes:

>> 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.
>

The regexp could be ".*", and the name-exp could be (not real code)

(bbdb-fetch-field 'bbdb-output-file (rmail-fetch-from-header 
(rmail-current-message)))

since rmail-output-file-alist name-exp's are passed to 'eval'.

>> 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).

Killing messages is definitely a good idea.

Robert