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|Name=The Insidious Big Brother Database
 
|Name=The Insidious Big Brother Database
 
|Short description=Contact management utility for Emacs
 
|Short description=Contact management utility for Emacs
|Full description=The Insidious Big Brother Database (BBDB) is a contact management utility for use with GNU Emacs and XEmacs. It can hook into Emacs-based mail- and news-readers and automatically collect information on messages therein.
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|Full 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 (Rmail, Gnus, VM, [[mu4e]]). BBDB is fully customizable.
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BBDB recently went through a major re-write which has been released as BBDB 3. BBDB 3 is fully compatible with GNU Emacs 23 and 24 (but not with older versions of GNU Emacs nor -so far- with Xemacs).
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|Homepage URL=https://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/bbdb/
 
|User level=none
 
|User level=none
|Status=Live
 
 
|Component programs=netscape,News/Mail,interface,program
 
|Component programs=netscape,News/Mail,interface,program
|Homepage URL=http://bbdb.sourceforge.net/
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|VCS checkout command=git clone git://git.savannah.nongnu.org/bbdb.git
|VCS checkout command=:pserver:anonymous@cvs.bbdb.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/bbdb
 
 
|Computer languages=Emacs Lisp
 
|Computer languages=Emacs Lisp
 
|Documentation note=User manual available in HTML form http://bbdb.sourceforge.net/bbdb.html; user manual included in TexInfo format
 
|Documentation note=User manual available in HTML form http://bbdb.sourceforge.net/bbdb.html; user manual included in TexInfo format
|Paid support=
 
|IRC help=
 
|IRC general=
 
|IRC development=
 
 
|Related projects=BBclone,Emacs
 
|Related projects=BBclone,Emacs
 
|Keywords=email,database,News,USENET,XEmacs,contact management,Big Brother. Emacs
 
|Keywords=email,database,News,USENET,XEmacs,contact management,Big Brother. Emacs
|Is GNU=n
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|Version identifier=3.1.1
|Last review by=Janet Casey
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|Version date=2014/03/12
|Last review date=2003-03-28
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|Version status=stable
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|Version download=http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/bbdb/bbdb-3.1.1.tar.gz
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|Last review by=Genium
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|Last review date=2014/03/14
 
|Submitted by=Database conversion
 
|Submitted by=Database conversion
 
|Submitted date=2011-04-01
 
|Submitted date=2011-04-01
|Version identifier=2.34
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|Status=
|Version date=2002-01-15
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|Is GNU=No
|Version status=stable
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|License verified date=2001-03-05
|Version download=http://bbdb.sourceforge.net/bbdb-2.34.tar.gz
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{{Project license
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|License=GPLv2orlater
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|License verified by=Janet Casey
 
|License verified date=2001-03-05
 
|License verified date=2001-03-05
|Version comment=2.34 stable released on 2002-01-15
 
 
}}
 
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{{Person
 
{{Person
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|Real name=Waider
 
|Role=Maintainer
 
|Role=Maintainer
|Real name=Waider
 
 
|Email=waider@waider.ie
 
|Email=waider@waider.ie
 
|Resource URL=
 
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|Resource audience=Developer
 
|Resource audience=Developer
 
|Resource kind=VCS Repository Webview
 
|Resource kind=VCS Repository Webview
|Resource URL=http://sourceforge.net/cvs/?group_id=4236
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|Resource URL=http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/bbdb.git
 
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{{Resource
 
{{Resource
|Resource audience=Bug Tracking
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|Resource audience=Developer
|Resource kind=VCS Repository Webview
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|Resource kind=Bug Tracking
|Resource URL=http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=4236&atid=104236
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|Resource URL=https://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/?group=bbdb
 
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{{Software category
 
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|Business=productivity,specialized
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|Business=productivity, specialized
|Interface=command-line,x-window-system
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|Interface=command-line, x-window-system
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{{Project license
 
|License=GPLv2orlater
 
|License verified by=Janet Casey
 
|License verified date=2001-03-05
 
 
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Revision as of 04:17, 31 July 2014


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The Insidious Big Brother Database

https://www.nongnu.org/bbdb/
Contact management utility for Emacs.

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.





Licensing

License

Verified by

Verified on

Notes

Verified by

Genium

Verified on

21 April 2020




Leaders and contributors

Contact(s)Role
Roland Winkler Maintainer


Resources and communication

AudienceResource typeURI
ELPAHomepagehttps://elpa.gnu.org/packages/bbdb.html
SavannahMailing Listhttps://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bbdb-user/
ELPADownloadhttps://elpa.gnu.org/packages/bbdb.html
SavannahVCS Repository Webviewhttps://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/bbdb.git/
DebianDeveloperhttps://tracker.debian.org/pkg/bbdb
WikidataGeneralhttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q91336649
SavannahDeveloperhttps://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/bbdb/
Downloadhttps://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/bbdb/
HistoryGeneralhttps://sourceforge.net/projects/bbdb/


Software prerequisites

KindDescription
Required to useGNU Emacs 24 or newer

This entry (in part or in whole) was last reviewed on 21 February 2022.




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