Re: Use BBDB for `rmail-output' ?

[Robert Pluim]

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

Robert