People who like Helm might also want to consider helm-mu which allows
(among other things) to search contacts stored in mu's index.  It
doesn't have a blacklist but I never felt I needed one because in Helm
it's very easy to refine the search to exclude matches and to navigate
the search results.

  https://github.com/emacs-helm/helm-mu


On 2014-08-19 Tue 02:17, Ramon Diaz-Uriarte wrote:
> On Mon, 18-08-2014, at 17:27, Ken Mankoff <[email protected]> wrote:
>> * On 2014-08-18 at 04:41, Ramon Diaz-Uriarte wrote:
>>> I would like to be able to edit the contact list used for
>>> autocompletion.  Why? I occasionally send an email to a mistaken
>>> address, or the same person over time changes emails (say
>>> "Name.Lastname@something" to "Lastname.Name@something"), but I have no
>>> idea how to edit/remove the no-longer-in-use/wrong email addresses. I
>>> can see ~/.mu/cache/contacts (but it says "do not edit"), and I can
>>> even see that sometimes email addresses with much higher frequencies
>>> get listed after entries with frequencies of 1. I haven't been able to
>>> find how to edit this list. This entry
>>> https://groups.google.com/d/topic/mu-discuss/-M9BmTmMlhk/discussion
>>
>> My solution is to only use the last X days of email addresses. This way
>> stale/incorrect email addresses need to be handled manually for a short
>> (for certain values of X) while to make sure I use the correct one, and
>> then the fall out of the DB.
>>
>> I combine the mu-generated address list with my own OS X Contacts
>> database, where I maintain "permanent" addresses that I want to have
>> autocomplete even if I haven't emailed them within the past X days.
>>
>> I do this by 1) using mu to find contacts within the last 90 days and
>> exporting in Org format.
>>
>> mu cfind --format=org-contact --after=`date -v-90d +%s` >> ~/.contacts.org
>>
>> And then 2) some custom code that reads my "permanent" address book and
>> appends it to contacts.org in the correct format.
>
> Thanks! I might try to combine this with Josiah's approach.
>
> Best,
>
> R.
>
>
>>
>>   -k.
>
>
> -- 
> Ramon Diaz-Uriarte
> Department of Biochemistry, Lab B-25
> Facultad de Medicina 
> Universidad Autónoma de Madrid 
> Arzobispo Morcillo, 4
> 28029 Madrid
> Spain
>
> Phone: +34-91-497-2412
>
> Email: [email protected]
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>
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