Hrm. Jeff scooped you on this one by a few months...
Date: Sat, 7 Oct 2000 04:45:54 +1100
Subject: [SLUG] Spiffy stuff for mutt (and hopefully other mail client) users :)
(and I don't think being in GMT land is a good enough excuse ;)
It is very cool though. And freaking useful.
-Thom
* Rev Simon Rumble ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote on Fri Feb 16, 2001 at 05:19:59 +0000:
> And here's my mutt tip. This one rocks!
>
> Download lbdb -- apt-get install lbdb on a decent distro :P -- and
> install it.
>
> Write a procmail like this:
> :0hcE
> | /usr/bin/lbdb-fetchaddr
>
> That means, copy the incoming email to the next rule and to this
> program. I put it before mailing list filters and after spam filters.
>
> Then put this in your .muttrc:
> set query_command="lbdbq %s
>
> Now whenever an email comes in it goes through that fetch thingy which
> culls any email addresses and sticks them in a nice fast little
> database. To seed it you can pipe all your archived mails through it
> to get started real quick.
>
> In mutt you can press Q (capital q) and enter a piece of query text
> like "simon" and it'll show you all the matches for what you entered
> -- all the Simons you've had correspondence with in the past.
>
> This is SOOO cool. I don't bother maintaining my address book any
> more since it's all in lbdb!
>
> lbdb stands for Little Big Brother Database, BTW. It can also be set
> up to do ldap querioes, query your Palm address db and a heap of other
> cool shit. It's just plain cool!
>
> --
> Rev Simon Rumble Current physical location: London, UK
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> http://www.rumble.net
>
> A Smith & Wesson beats four aces.
>
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