Problem with bbdb and wanderlust

[Fred Gilham]

Some time ago I started seeing errors of the type

bbdb-bbdb-message-header: No buffer named Summary

As a result some bbdb functionality disappeared, though some continued
to work. But what most concerned me was that I was unable to forward
emails. Eventually I tracked it down as follows.

The function bbdb-message-header dispatches on the mua, and for
wanderlust it points to bbdb/wl-header.

That function uses the wl-summary-buffer-name variable to find the
name of the summary buffer, but that variable is set to "Summary".
There is no buffer named "Summary"; instead all the buffers use what
is called the "sticky buffer name" such as
"Summary:%INBOX:randomuser/clear@imap.gmail.com:993!"





Changing 

      wl-summary-buffer-name 

to

      (wl-summary-sticky-buffer-name
       (elmo-folder-name-internal wl-summary-buffer-elmo-folder))

makes everything work as expected.

Here's a diff:

--- bbdb-wl.el-old      2020-02-18 09:50:43.252186491 -0800
+++ bbdb-wl.el  2020-06-09 06:16:49.859572928 -0700
@@ -36,8 +36,11 @@
   (autoload 'elmo-message-entity-field "elmo-msgdb"))
 
 ;;;###autoload
+
 (defun bbdb/wl-header (header)
-  (with-current-buffer wl-summary-buffer-name
+  (with-current-buffer
+      (wl-summary-sticky-buffer-name
+       (elmo-folder-name-internal wl-summary-buffer-elmo-folder))
     (elmo-message-entity-field
      (elmo-message-entity wl-summary-buffer-elmo-folder
                           (wl-summary-message-number))



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