address completion when composing

Florian Friesdorf flo at chaoflow.net
Wed May 11 05:31:36 PDT 2011


On Wed, 11 May 2011 14:18:01 +0200, Florian Friesdorf <flo at chaoflow.net> wrote:
> 
> According to the docs [1], there are two programs that can be used with
> notmuch-address.el: notmuch-addresses (python) and addrlookup (vala/c).
> 
> Further it is possible to import all addresses into bbdb [2], supposedly
> faster than notmuch-address.el.
> 
> Is it also faster than notmuch-address.el + addrlookup? 
> 
> What about shipping some / all of these with notmuch? It feels that
> newbies would benefit from this inclusion and more extensive
> documentation about what to do to get address completion.
> 
> Probably it would be sane to decide either for notmuch-addresses or
> addrlookup, as they seem to do the same.
> 
> In addition the import script for bbdb could be nice.
> 
> [1] http://notmuchmail.org/emacstips/#address_completion
> [2] http://notmuch.198994.n3.nabble.com/bbdb-import-notmuch-addresses-td520249.html

In addition, about a year ago, Sebastian indicated, that notmuch itself
could offer returning email addresses [3]. Are there arguments against
or just nobody found the time to do it?

[3] http://article.gmane.org/gmane.mail.notmuch.general/1911
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