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[Johan Vromans <question165331@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Question #165331 on VM changed:
https://answers.launchpad.net/vm/+question/165331

Johan Vromans posted a new comment:
[Quoting Uday Reddy, on July 20 2011, 08:56, in "Re: [Question #16533"]
> I just tried bbdb-define-all-aliases from BBDB 2.35, and it is working
> fine.  Also, as I said, it has nothing to do with VM.  mail-mode and
> mailabbrevs are part of Gnu Emacs and BBDB is its own package.

I went back to BBDB 2.35 and VM 8.1.1. The unsolicited window stealing
interferes with my work. I'll try to tackle that some other time.

> I only see in the BBDB manual the functionality of expanded
> addresses from 'mail-alias fields. I don't know what you mean by
> "mail addresses from BBDB".

I should have been a bit more clear. 
BBDB provides completion and abbrevs (aliases).
Completion info is derived from the user name and/or email addresses.
Aliases are derived from the mail-alias field in the BBDB records.

In a mail buffer, when I enter

  To: foo

I can hit M-TAB to get completion for names and addresses starting
with "foo".
I can hit C-n or [down] (since I bound these keys to
mail-abbrev-next-line) to expand a possible abbrev "foo".

Setting up the 'aliases' is handled by bbdb-define-all-aliases which,
according to the BBDB docs, should be run from the mail-setup-hook.
There something goes wrong. Since Mail/VM/BBDB are tightly cooperating
I'm investigating which of the components is mistaken (counting myself
as a component, too).

-- Johan

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