In addition to http://notmuchmail.org/emacstips/#index11h2 and Jani's 'goobook' in id:"87zkfuh3i0.fsf@nikula.org" you can now also use http://www.iki.fi/too/nottoomuch/nottoomuch-addresses.pl for your address completion needs when composing mail/reply. This program is 1) easy to install and 2) pretty fast to use when completing. How to install 1) Download the program from above url on the machine you're running notmuch and find suitable location to it. 2) Verify it's sha1 checksum is 125f3917b3f2dc68bdf30af04ab623d53321e50c 3) chmod 755 /path/to/nottoomuch-addresses.pl 4) Run /path/to/nottoomuch-addresses.pl --update When run first time this gathers email addresses from all of your mail. This may take a long while to complete -- depends on the amount of email you have. Further --updates are much faster as those just take addresses from new mail. 5) Test that it works: Run /path/to/nottoomuch-addresses.pl notmuchmail 6) In case you're using emacs mua with notmuch, edit your notmuch configuration for emacs with the following content: (require 'notmuch-address) (setq notmuch-address-command "/path/to/nottoomuch-addresses.pl") (notmuch-address-message-insinuate) 7) Restart emacs notmuch mua (or eval above lines) and start composing new mail. When adding recipient to To: field. press <TAB> after 3 or more characters have been added. In case you get 2 or more address matches, use arrow keys in minibuffer to choose desired recipient... 8) Enjoy! /path/to/nottoomuch-addresses.pl --help provides more detailed information. BR, Tomi