On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 02:03:15AM +1300, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Mon, Nov 10, 2014 at 08:23:57AM -0600, Russell Harris wrote: > > On Mon, November 10, 2014 7:34 am, DaleKelly wrote: > > > how can I configure/maintain an address book? > > > > But if you have a high volume of email and many addresses, you may need to > > utilize a database package to manage the address book. > > Do you mean something like abook or lbdb? > I would be interested to know what else there is.
I interpreted that as: if you have to many addresses to keep track of by hand. Mail indexers, such as mu provide functionality to automatically search addresses in the mail archive and to extract them: mu cfind --format=mutt-ab Of course, one could refine the query to restrict the contacts to people that e-mailed you directly, during a certain timeframe, etc. You can then use this as an address book server in mutt: set query_command = "mu cfind --format=mutt-ab '%s'" Of course, notmuch can be wrapped to provide similar functionality. Kind regards, Daniël
