I get a lot of mail with From: lines like this:

From: "foo at bar dot quux dot org" <gcc-bugzilla@gcc.gnu.org>

where the text in the quotes changes constantly.  I don't want these
entered into BBDB.  I thought that these settings would do the trick:

(custom-set-variables
 '(bbdb-ignore-some-messages-alist
    (quote (("From" . "gcc-bugzilla@gcc\\.gnu\\.org"))))
 '(bbdb-notice-auto-save-file t)
 '(bbdb-offer-save (quote savenoprompt))
 '(bbdb-use-pop-up nil)
 '(bbdb/mail-auto-create-p (quote bbdb-ignore-some-messages-hook))
 '(bbdb/news-auto-create-p (quote bbdb-ignore-some-messages-hook))
 ...)

but I still get the "Change name?" and then "Make an alternate?" prompte
every time I read one of these messages.

It may well be that this is not how to do that, but if so the
documentation needs some clarifying, because it sure sounds like this
should work.

zw

Hi!

I've run into this same problem many times and so far I've always
concluded that bbdb-ignore-some-messages-alist has no effect when an
address is already in bbdb.

Find the entry with that address and delete it and Bbdb should bother
you no more.

This is probably a feature intended to let you manually make entries
that you want in your bbdb after all but it should be documented.

Best regards
/Ulrik Haugen