Working with bbdb

[Cecil Westerhof]

I am a newbie with gnus. One important part is bbdb.

In .bbdb I have:
["FirstName" "LastName" nil "Company" nil nil
("Firs...@company.com" "FirstName...@gmail.com")
((creation-date . "2009-10-30") ( timestamp . "2009-10-30")) nil]
But when I input 'fi' and the use TAB, I get:
Possible completions are:
FirstName...@gmail.com FirstName LastName <Firs...@company.com>
What is happening here. Why are the both e-mail addresses not generated
in the same way?

Is there an easy way to fill the .bbdb file?

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Cecil Westerhof
Senior Software Engineer
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/cecilwesterhof

[Christopher Culver]

Cecil Westerhof <Ce...@decebal.nl> writes:
> In .bbdb I have:
> ["FirstName" "LastName" nil "Company" nil nil
> ("Firs...@company.com" "FirstName...@gmail.com")
> ((creation-date . "2009-10-30") ( timestamp . "2009-10-30")) nil]
> But when I input 'fi' and the use TAB, I get:
> Possible completions are:
> FirstName...@gmail.com FirstName LastName <Firs...@company.com>
> What is happening here. Why are the both e-mail addresses not generated
> in the same way?

I have this problem as well with one contact who, when I want
expansion, appears only as the e-mail address instead of NAME
<ADDRESS>. This behavior has always baffled me.

[Steven E. Harris]

Christopher Culver <crcu...@christopherculver.com> writes:

> I have this problem as well with one contact who, when I want
> expansion, appears only as the e-mail address instead of NAME
> <ADDRESS>.

Try setting `bbdb-dwim-net-address-allow-redundancy' to t.

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Steven E. Harris

[Christopher Culver]

"Steven E. Harris" <s...@panix.com> writes:
> Try setting `bbdb-dwim-net-address-allow-redundancy' to t.

Thank you, that solves the problem.