On Sat, Oct 07, 2000 at 04:45:54AM +1100, Jeff Waugh wrote: > Found cool software today, must share. oath. i've been using it for years ;) > First off, install the software. With Debian, you can apt-get install lbdb, > but you will have to use the source package for other distributions here: > http://www.spinnaker.de/debian/lbdb_0.20.1.tar.gz apparently the upstream maintainer gave it up, so the debian maintainer took it over > To tell mutt that you want to use lbdb as the query program, add this to > your .muttrc: > > ~/.muttrc: (add to!) > set query_command = "lbdbq %s" and you can run lbdbq directly from the command line too.. the output is simply a list of mathing email addresses, one per line. (the last column gives some random info from whatever found the address. the most useful is the date lbdb-fetchaddr caught the address, so if you aren't sure, you can choose the most recent) one amusing side affect is that lbdb-fetchaddr replaces matches with the newest address. that means for lists (like slug), the description keeps changing to whatever the last poster used. -- - Gus -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug
