using bbdb with autocompletion
Tomi Ollila
tomi.ollila at iki.fi
Sat Apr 14 14:13:46 PDT 2012
On Thu, Apr 12 2012, David Belohrad <david at belohrad.ch> wrote:
> Dear All,
> before I was using gnus to read my emails. This was setup together with
> bbdb such, that every email address I got an email delivered got stored
> into the bbdb database.
>
> The config was following:
>
> ---------------------------
> ;; IF USING GNUS TO FETCH MAIL:
> (if (locate-library "bbdb")
> ;; bbdb to automatically create email address list
> (progn
> (require 'bbdb)
> (bbdb-initialize)
> (add-hook 'gnus-startup-hook 'bbdb-insinuate-gnus)
> (add-hook 'gnus-startup-hook 'bbdb-insinuate-message)
> (add-hook 'message-setup-hook 'bbdb-define-all-aliases)
>
> (setq bbdb/news-auto-create-p t)
> (setq bbdb-complete-name-allow-cycling t)
> (setq bbdb-complete-mail-allow-cycling t)
> (setq bbdb-complete-name-full-completion t)
> (setq bbdb-completion-type 'primary-or-name)
> (setq bbdb-use-pop-up nil)
> ;; set BBDB to AFS so we have the access from all computers to the same bbdb database!
> (setq bbdb-file "/afs/cern.ch/user/b/belohrad/private/bbdb")
> (setq bbdb-offer-save 1)
> (setq bbdb-electric-p t)
> (message "bbdb initialized")
> )
> (message "bbdb is missing: address lookup will not work"))
> --------------------------
>
> The problem I have with this now is, that when using notmuch to read
> emails, the email addresses do not automatically add to bbdb. So when I
> write an email, I can only choose 'To:' email address, which is already
> in the bbdb from the times I was using gnus. But all new addresses are
> not added.
>
> How can I setup notmuch properly so with each email arrived it checks
> against email address and stores it in the bbdb as in case of gnus?
There is (too) brief notice about that in
http://notmuchmail.org/emacstips/#index13h2
There is just little bit more information in notmuch archives
about that -- I did not dig deeper though.
If you're interested you could figure that out and update the
wiki page.
I'm, using this: id:"m2ehtm1w7p.fsf at guru.guru-group.fi" :D
(currently my last mail on nottoomuch-addresses.sh)
> thanks for any help.
>
> --
> .david.
Tomi
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