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Using the BBDB with Reportmail
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   The BBDB can modify the `reportmail.el' package to use information
from BBDB records when identifying the senders or recipients of e-mail
messages.

   In normal operation, Reportmail displays the name and net address
sender and recipient of incoming messages.  The BBDB can be configured
to intercept and rewrite this information before it appears in the
Emacs mode-line.  It first attempts to rewrite the sender and/or
recipient information by substituting those addresses with information
from the BBDB. Replacement information is first sought from the
`mail-name' field in the respective BBDB records.  If no such field is
found, the `name' field is returned.  If no BBDB record is found, no
rewriting is performed.

   The BBDB-Reportmail augmentation is accomplished through the
advising of the Reportmail `display-time-get-field' function in order
to do a-posteriori modification of the returned value.  The
augmentation uses the `bbdb/reportmail-alternate-full-name' function to
retrieve data from the BBDB for use in rewriting.