On Mon, Dec 18, 2000, Gerald Oskoboiny wrote:
> That lbdb web page doesn't seem to say anything about what it
> does or why you would want to use it!?
That is true that the Web page is not very explicit, but it is a set of
tools to:
- build a database of known email addresses (with lbdb-fetchaddr[1]).
- be able to access various lists of email addresses (from this
particular database, a PGP keyring, Mutt aliases, Pine's addressbook,
etc).
lbdb-fetchaddr is basically your atw, and m_inmail is your grep I think,
whose output format is compatible with Mutt.
> Anyway, I'm pretty sure I wouldn't want to use it for this.
> (why would I want to do queries inside Mutt?)
If you want to send an email to somebody that you know but whose email
address is not in your Mutt aliases file, you can query the database you
built with lbdb-fetchaddr within Mutt. It is faster than digging into
your mail archives to find the exact email address.
I have been wanting to use that for quite a while now but haven't got
around to doing it yet.
1.
http://www.spinnaker.de/lbdb/lbdb-fetchaddr.html
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