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From: Tomi Ollila <tomi.ollila@iki.fi>
To: Daniel Reusche <danielr@physik.tu-berlin.de>, notmuch@notmuchmail.org
Subject: Re: notmuch with the bbdb
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On Tue, Jul 03 2012, Daniel Reusche <danielr@physik.tu-berlin.de> wrote:

> heyho.
> in the documentation it said, bbdb would work really well with message 
> mode. my problem now is, that it is stated nowhere how to feed the 
> database of notmuch to the bbdb initially.
> is there a way to export all the mail addresses in the maildirs to 
> plaintext files?
> bbdb-snarf gives a pretty good address scraper for plaintext files or 
> emacs buffers, but as far as I could see it there is no way to just show 
> all the senders' addresses.

One option is to download nottoomuch-addresses.sh from
http://www.iki.fi/too/nottoomuch/nottoomuch-addresses/

Then execute ./nottoomuch-addresses.sh --update

and then pick ~/.config/nottoomuch/addresses.active
(and then remove that directory and the tool)

> does anyone know how to solve this discrepancy?
>
> apart from that, notmuch might be just the right solution for me.
>
> best,
> dan

Tomi