databases/bbdb 3.2.2.a_11 DragonFly

Big Brother Database

System: DragonFly
Repository: DPorts
Maintainer: [email protected] (as in FreeBSD)
License: GPLv3+
Categories: databases, elisp
Package size: 344.3 KiB, 1145.3 KiB installed

Description

BBDB is the Insidious Big Brother Database for GNU Emacs. It provides an address book for email and snail mail addresses, phone numbers and the like. It can be linked with various Emacs mail clients (Message and Mail mode, Rmail, Gnus, MH-E, Mu4e, VM, and Wanderlust). BBDB is fully customizable.

In the other systems

System

Port

Version

DragonFly

databases/bbdb

3.2.2.a_11

FreeBSD

databases/bbdb

3.2.2.a_13

NetBSD

misc/bbdb3

3.2.2anb3

Install

Binary package:

pkg install bbdb

From DPorts:

cd /usr/dports/databases/bbdb && make install clean

Dependencies

Run dependencies 1

editors/emacs

No port depends on this one.

Configuration

No options to configure.

Service scripts: none
Flavors: bbdb-emacs_nox-3.2.2.a_11, bbdb-emacs_canna-3.2.2.a_11, bbdb-emacs_devel-3.2.2.a_11, bbdb-emacs_wayland-3.2.2.a_11, bbdb-emacs_devel_nox-3.2.2.a_11

Message after installing

Add this line to your Emacs initialization.

(require 'bbdb-loaddefs)

Depending on which mail user agent and other miscellaneous packages you
use, you may also want to add something similar to these lines.

(bbdb-initialize 'gnus 'message)
(bbdb-mua-auto-update-init 'gnus 'message)

Refer to Emacs' help for these two functions, bbdb-initialize and
bbdb-mua-auto-update-init, for details.