[PATCH] emacs: functions to import sender or recipient into BBDB

[Tomi Ollila]

On Thu, Feb 07 2013, Daniel Bergey wrote:

>>From a show buffer, notmuch-bbdb/snarf-from imports the sender into
> bbdb.  notmuch-bbdb/snarf-to imports all recipients.  Newly imported
> concacts are reported in the minibuffer / Messages buffer.
>
> Both functions use the BBDB parser to recognize email address formats.
> ---
> Following discussion upthread, I put everything in notmuch-address.  I
> renamed the functions to put notmuch before bbdb.  And I replaced the
> horrid comma-splitting from my first version with the functions BBDB
> provides for parsing email headers.
>
> It looks as though Reply-To is not exposed in the :headers plist.  I
> assume the Resent-* headers are not, either.  Therefore none of these
> are imported (nil entries in notmuch-bbdb/header-by-name).  They would be
> easy to add if the plist is expanded.
>
> Thanks, and sorry it's taken me so long to get back to this patch.

>From my understanding the code looks pretty good; I have only some
whitespace consistency things that jist briefly passes the threshold
to mention -- comments inline.

But before doing a potential cleanup patch the users of notmuch-bbdb
please test and comment

>  emacs/notmuch-address.el |   43 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 43 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/emacs/notmuch-address.el b/emacs/notmuch-address.el
> index 2bf762b..8d5f727 100644
> --- a/emacs/notmuch-address.el
> +++ b/emacs/notmuch-address.el
> @@ -98,4 +98,47 @@ line."
>  
>  ;;

This ';;' used to be 3rd last line in notmuch-address.el. 
Running 'tail -n 5 emacs/*.el' reveals that it is (somewhat) consistent
to use it as "separator" between code above and (provide 'notmuch-...)
that follows. 

> +;; functions to add sender / recipients to BBDB
> +
> +(defun notmuch-bbdb/snarf-headers (headers)
> +  ;; Helper function to avoid code duplication in the two below
> +  ;; headers should have the same format as bbdb-get-addresses-headers
> +
> +  ;; bbdb-get-addresses reads these
> +  ;; Ugh, pass-by-global
> +  (let ((addrs (bbdb-get-addresses nil nil 'notmuch-bbdb/get-header-content))
> +        (bbdb-get-addresses-headers headers) ; headers to read
> +        (bbdb-gag-messages t) ; suppress m/n processed message
> +        )
> +    (bbdb-update-records addrs t t)))
> +
> +(defun notmuch-bbdb/snarf-from ()
> +  "Import the sender of the current message into BBDB"
> +  (interactive)
> +  (notmuch-bbdb/snarf-headers
> +   (list  (assoc 'authors bbdb-get-addresses-headers))))

Two spaces above.

> +
> +(defun notmuch-bbdb/snarf-to ()
> +  "Import all recipients of the current message into BBDB"
> +  (interactive)
> +  (notmuch-bbdb/snarf-headers
> +   (list  (assoc 'recipients bbdb-get-addresses-headers))))

Ditto.

> +
> +(defvar notmuch-bbdb/header-by-name
> +  ;; both are case sensitive
> +  '( ("From" . :From)
> +	("To" . :To)
> +	("CC" . :Cc)
> +	("BCC" . :Bcc)
> +	("Resent-From" . nil)
> +	("Reply-To" . nil)
> +	("Resent-To" . nil)
> +	("Resent-CC" . nil))
> +  "Alist for dispatching header symbols as used by notmuch-show-get-header
> +from strings as used by bbdb-get-addresses")
> +
> +(defun notmuch-bbdb/get-header-content (name)
> +  (notmuch-show-get-header (cdr (assoc name notmuch-bbdb/header-by-name))))
> +
> +

2 empty lines --- somewhat consistent with notmuch-lib.el ... but
not with anything else ;D

>  (provide 'notmuch-address)
> -- 
> 1.7.10.4