Re: [VM] vm & bbdb

[Michael]

Robert, you were right. I use a couple different systems and it was
carried over. I had no idea that line was in my .vm :)
Thank you both for helping me. I am now able to start VM.
I've been on the maillist for some time, but am very much a newbie so
trying to learn as I go.

Mike

On Thu, Apr 7, 2016 at 10:17 AM, Michael <address@hidden> wrote:
> * Robert Marshall <address@hidden> [2016-04-07 16:11:50 +0100]:
>
>> On Wed, Apr 06 2016, Michael <address@hidden> wrote:
>>
>> > * Uday Reddy <address@hidden> [2016-04-07 04:01:28 +0100]:
>> >
>> >> Michael writes:
>> >>
>> >> > I am trying to start vm and I get this error:
>> >> > Required feature 'bbdb-autoloads' was not provided
>> >> >
>> >> > Is this a problem with vm or bbdb?
>> >> > I am running Debian Testing, vm-8.2.0b, and bbdb v3
>> >>
>> >> Most likely a problem with bbdb or your customizations. VM itself doesn't
>> >> know anything about bbdb.
>> >>
>> >> Cheers,
>> >> Uday
>> >
>> > Ok, thanks Uday.
>> > This leads to another question.
>> > With the newer vm and bbdb, what is required for bbdb to work with vm?
>> > When I use gnus, bbdb works fine, so I don't know what different
>> > customization to use for vm.
>> > I've tried to use what I find via google, but obviously have something
>> > wrong.
>> >
>>
>> Your initial post suggests that you have a require of bbdb-autoloads, that
>> doesn't exist in bbdb 3. I have
>>
>> (bbdb-initialize 'vm 'message 'gnus)
>>
>> And I think that is more or less it!
>>
>> Though I added
>>
>> (setq bbdb-mua-update-interactive-p '(query . create))
>> ;; Make sure we look at every address in a message and not only the
>> ;; first one
>> (setq bbdb-message-all-addresses t)
>> ;; use ; on a message to invoke bbdb interactively
>> (add-hook
>>  'vm-summary-mode-hook
>>  (lambda ()
>>    (define-key gnus-summary-mode-map (kbd ";") 'bbdb-mua-edit-field)))
>>
>> to get some things back from what I was used to with bbdb 2
>>
>> You might need to ensure that when you built bbdb, it found and built the
>> vm interface code.
>>
>> Robert
>> --
>> Robert Marshall               twitter: @rajm
>
> Robert, you were right. I use a couple different systems and it was
> carried over. I had no idea that line was in my .vm :)
> Thank you both for helping me. I am now able to start VM.
> I've been on the maillist for some time, but am very much a newbie so
> trying to learn as I go.
>
> Mike
>