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Re: [O] org-contacts or bbdb?


From: Eric Abrahamsen
Subject: Re: [O] org-contacts or bbdb?
Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2011 10:21:11 +0800
User-agent: 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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