On Wed, 11 May 2011 14:18:01 +0200, Florian Friesdorf <flo@chaoflow.net> wrote:
> 
> According to the docs [1], there are two programs that can be used with
> notmuch-address.el: notmuch-addresses (python) and addrlookup
> (vala/c).

for completeness...
there is also notmuch-addrlookup in go:
http://git.notmuchmail.org/git/notmuch/tree/HEAD:/bindings/go/cmds

(which is broken with the latest go release r57.1 because one of the 3rd
party package (to parse config files) is broken...)

> 
> Further it is possible to import all addresses into bbdb [2], supposedly
> faster than notmuch-address.el.
> 
> Is it also faster than notmuch-address.el + addrlookup? 
presumably: crawling thru the db is I/O bound...

> What about shipping some / all of these with notmuch? It feels that
> newbies would benefit from this inclusion and more extensive
> documentation about what to do to get address completion.
> 
> Probably it would be sane to decide either for notmuch-addresses or
> addrlookup, as they seem to do the same.
> 
> In addition the import script for bbdb could be nice.
+1

-s