BBDB and vm-summary-function-B

[Uday Reddy]

Vromans reports (viewmail-info, 2011-08-17)

Using the attached mailbox (small) I can reproduce the following
problem:

4 messages, all new, are shown. The summary shows "Sheila en René".

* Visit all 4 messages; the status changes from New to Read.
* Save the mailbox.
* Exit Emacs

* Restart emacs.
* Load VM 8.2.0a (vm-8.0.2a/vm-load.el).
* Mx vm-visit-folder, and point it to the mailbox.

4 messages are shown. The summary shows "Sheila en Ren\351".

Inspection of the (saved) mailbox shows that in the X-VM-v5-Data header,
the name "Sheila en René" is stored encoded in Latin1. I very much doubt
if that's correct.

My summary format is:

  (setq vm-summary-format "%n %*%a %-18.18UB %-3.3m %2d %4l %UL%I%s\n")

The actual entry in the summary is generated by vm-summary-function-B,
which is part of the bbdb package (file bbdb-vm.el).

[Uday Reddy (reddyuday)]

> This looks fine at first sight, though.

No, it isn't working. As soon as I tried to use it, I got bad characters in
the summary. BBDB hasn't been maintained for a long time, and trying to
puts its data into VM headers isn't very wise.