Bbdb

[edit]

• Overview
• Details
• About this entry

The Insidious Big Brother Database

https://elpa.gnu.org/packages/bbdb.html
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.

Documentation

BBDB is now available via Emacs Lisp Package Archive (ELPA).

To install this package, run in Emacs:

M-x package-install RET bbdb RET

Download

https://git.savannah.nongnu.org/cgit/bbdb.git/snapshot/bbdb-3.2.tar.gz

version 3.2 (stable)
released on 20 December 2017

User level

Beginner

VCS Checkout

git clone git://git.savannah.nongnu.org/bbdb.git

Categories

• Business:productivity
• Business:specialized
• Interface:command-line
• Interface:x-window-system
• Programming-language:lisp
• Runs-on:GNU/Linux
• Runs-on:Windows
• Runs-on:BSD
• Runs-on:OS X

Related Projects

• Ebdb

Extension or Plugin

This package can be used as an extension, plugin, or add-on to:

• Emacs

Licensing

License

Verified by

Verified on

Notes

License

GPLv3orlater

Verified by

Genium

Verified on

21 April 2020

Notes

https://git.savannah.nongnu.org/cgit/bbdb.git/tree/COPYING

Leaders and contributors

Contact(s)	Role
Roland Winkler	Maintainer

Resources and communication

Audience	Resource type	URI
	General	https://savannah.gnu.org/people/
Savannah	Developer	https://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/bbdb/
	Download	https://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/bbdb/
Savannah	VCS Repository Webview	https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/bbdb.git/
Questions, comments, suggestions, and bug reports	Mailing List	https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bbdb-user/
Wikidata	General	https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q91336649
Emacs Lisp Package Archive	Homepage	https://elpa.gnu.org/packages/bbdb.html
History	General	https://sourceforge.net/projects/bbdb/
Debian	Developer	https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/bbdb

Software prerequisites

Kind	Description
Required to use	GNU Emacs 24 or newer

This entry (in part or in whole) was last reviewed on 4 September 2020.

Entry

"Debian" is not in the list (General, Help, Bug Tracking, Support, Developer) of allowed values for the "Resource audience" property.

"Savannah" is not in the list (General, Help, Bug Tracking, Support, Developer) of allowed values for the "Resource audience" property.

"Savannah" is not in the list (General, Help, Bug Tracking, Support, Developer) of allowed values for the "Resource audience" property.

"Questions" is not in the list (General, Help, Bug Tracking, Support, Developer) of allowed values for the "Resource audience" property.

"comments" is not in the list (General, Help, Bug Tracking, Support, Developer) of allowed values for the "Resource audience" property.

"suggestions" is not in the list (General, Help, Bug Tracking, Support, Developer) of allowed values for the "Resource audience" property.

"and bug reports" is not in the list (General, Help, Bug Tracking, Support, Developer) of allowed values for the "Resource audience" property.

"History" is not in the list (General, Help, Bug Tracking, Support, Developer) of allowed values for the "Resource audience" property.

"Emacs Lisp Package Archive" is not in the list (General, Help, Bug Tracking, Support, Developer) of allowed values for the "Resource audience" property.

"Wikidata" is not in the list (General, Help, Bug Tracking, Support, Developer) of allowed values for the "Resource audience" property.