Re: BBDB and Google

[Richard Riley]

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?