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Re: [O] org-contacts or bbdb?
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Eric Abrahamsen |
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Re: [O] org-contacts or bbdb? |
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Fri, 21 Oct 2011 10:21:11 +0800 |
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Gnus/5.110018 (No Gnus v0.18) Emacs/24.0.90 (gnu/linux) |
On Fri, Oct 21 2011, Peter Münster wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I would like to manage my contacts, so that I can
> - easily search them
> - add new email addresses from gnus (summary buffer)
> - complete email addresses in gnus (message buffer and prompts in
> mini-buffer)
> - and perhaps more in the future
>
> Could you guide me please, what to choose, org-contacts or bbdb?
> I don't see the advantages of the one or of the other...
> TIA for any hints!
With those requirements, either will probably do fine. I use BBDB
because it's very well tuned to gnus, and you can do quite a bit to the
database just from the gnus summary/article buffers.
As Rasmus mentioned, if you use BBDB you should get version 3, it's
significantly better than the previous version. There's a slow movement
towards better import/export functions, which I think has been one of
the major gripes about BBDB in the past (there are probably more I'm not
aware of).
Good luck,
Eric
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