Re: add sender without mail if mail is in some ignored-list?

[Roland Winkler]

On Tue, Dec 28 2021, Roland Winkler wrote:
> So it seems to me, the best way to ignore mail addresses like
> <no-reply@exmple.com> is to define a function for
> `bbdb-canonicalize-mail-function' that returns nil in such a case.
> Then, BBDB should look up the record that matches the name, but it will
> not associate the bogus address <no-reply@exmple.com> with the record
> for this name.
>
> Or am I still misunderstanding the nature of this issue?

If such a thing does solve the problem, it can also be made more
user-friendly by adding code to `bbdb-clean-address-components' that
will match the mail address against a customizable regexp.  If this
succeeds, the mail address is ignored.