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|Name=The Insidious Big Brother Database
 
|Name=The Insidious Big Brother Database
|Short description=Contact management utility for Emacs
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|Short description=Contact management utility for Emacs.
 
|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.
 
|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.
  
 
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).
 
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).
|Homepage URL=https://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/bbdb
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|Homepage URL=https://www.nongnu.org/bbdb/
|User level=none
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|Is High Priority Project=No
|Component programs=netscape,News/Mail,interface,program
 
 
|VCS checkout command=git clone git://git.savannah.nongnu.org/bbdb.git
 
|VCS checkout command=git clone git://git.savannah.nongnu.org/bbdb.git
|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
|Accepts cryptocurrency donations=No
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|Decommissioned or Obsolete=No
 
|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
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|Last review date=2018/02/19
 
|Last review date=2018/02/19
 
|Submitted date=2011-04-01
 
|Submitted date=2011-04-01
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|User level=none
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|Component programs=netscape,News/Mail,interface,program
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|Accepts cryptocurrency donations=No
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|Test entry=No
 
|Is GNU=No
 
|Is GNU=No
 
|License verified date=2001-03-05
 
|License verified date=2001-03-05
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|Resource audience=Developer
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|Resource audience=Savannah (Ref)
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|Resource URL=https://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/bbdb/
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{{Resource
 
|Resource kind=VCS Repository Webview
 
|Resource kind=VCS Repository Webview
|Resource URL=http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/bbdb.git
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|Resource URL=https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/bbdb.git/
 
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{{Resource
 
{{Resource
|Resource audience=Savannah (Ref)
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|Resource kind=Mailing List
|Resource URL=https://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/bbdb
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|Resource URL=https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bbdb-user/
 
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{{Resource
 
{{Resource
|Resource audience=Help
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|Resource kind=General
|Resource kind=E-mail
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|Resource URL=https://sourceforge.net/projects/bbdb/
|Resource URL=mailto:bbdb-announce@lists.surceforge.net
 
 
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{{Resource
 
{{Resource
|Resource audience=Developer,Support
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|Resource kind=General
|Resource kind=Mailing List Info/Archive
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|Resource URL=https://savannah.gnu.org/people/
|Resource URL=http://lists.sourceforge.net/mailman/listinfo/bbdb-info
 
 
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{{Software category
 
{{Software category
 
|Business=productivity, specialized
 
|Business=productivity, specialized
 
|Interface=command-line, x-window-system
 
|Interface=command-line, x-window-system
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|Programming-language=lisp
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|Runs-on=GNU/Linux
 
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{{Software prerequisite
 
{{Software prerequisite
|Prerequisite kind=Required to use
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|Prerequisite kind=Source requirement
|Prerequisite description=Emacs v. 19.34 or later
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|Prerequisite description=[[Emacs]] v. 19.34 or later
 
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}}
 
{{Software prerequisite
 
{{Software prerequisite
 
|Prerequisite kind=Required to use
 
|Prerequisite kind=Required to use
|Prerequisite description=XEmacs v. 19.16 or later
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|Prerequisite description=[[XEmacs]] v. 19.16 or later
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{{Software prerequisite
 
|Prerequisite kind=Required to build
 
|Prerequisite description=Emacs
 
 
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|Prerequisite kind=Weak prerequisite
 
|Prerequisite kind=Weak prerequisite
|Prerequisite description=Reportmail
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|Prerequisite description=[[Reportmail]]
 
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|Prerequisite kind=Weak prerequisite
 
|Prerequisite kind=Weak prerequisite
|Prerequisite description=gnuserv
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|Prerequisite description=[[gnuserv]]
 
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|Prerequisite kind=Weak prerequisite
 
|Prerequisite kind=Weak prerequisite
|Prerequisite description=Gnus
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|Prerequisite description=[[Gnus]]
 
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|Prerequisite kind=Weak prerequisite
 
|Prerequisite kind=Weak prerequisite
|Prerequisite description=VM
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Revision as of 11:43, 8 January 2019


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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

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Notes

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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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