On Tue, Jul 03 2012, Daniel Reusche <danielr@physik.tu-berlin.de> wrote: > heyho. > in the documentation it said, bbdb would work really well with message > mode. my problem now is, that it is stated nowhere how to feed the > database of notmuch to the bbdb initially. > is there a way to export all the mail addresses in the maildirs to > plaintext files? > bbdb-snarf gives a pretty good address scraper for plaintext files or > emacs buffers, but as far as I could see it there is no way to just show > all the senders' addresses. One option is to download nottoomuch-addresses.sh from http://www.iki.fi/too/nottoomuch/nottoomuch-addresses/ Then execute ./nottoomuch-addresses.sh --update and then pick ~/.config/nottoomuch/addresses.active (and then remove that directory and the tool) > does anyone know how to solve this discrepancy? > > apart from that, notmuch might be just the right solution for me. > > best, > dan Tomi