The Insidious Big Brother Database (BBDB) is a contact management utility. It is tightly integrated with several mail and news readers, allowing it to create database entries directly from mail and news messages. As is usual with applications for Emacs, this record creation can be configured in many ways, ranging from a boolean create/don't create setting to creation based on the result of a user-supplied function. Database records can be used to store many types of information, from name and address to URLs and X-Face images. This information can be displayed when a message from an entity named in a database record is received. In addition, messages from database members can be tagged in the Gnus Summary Buffer, and Gnus scoring can be configured based on the contents of database records. Supercite citations can even be preset through the use of records in the BBDB.
The Insidious Big Brother Database (BBDB) is a contact management utility. It is tightly integrated with several mail and news readers, allowing it to create database entries directly from mail and news messages. As is usual with applications for Emacs, this record creation can be configured in many ways, ranging from a boolean create/don't create setting to creation based on the result of a user-supplied function. Database records can be used to store many types of information, from name and address to URLs and X-Face images. This information can be displayed when a message from an entity named in a database record is received. In addition, messages from database members can be tagged in the Gnus Summary Buffer, and Gnus scoring can be configured based on the contents of database records. Supercite citations can even be preset through the use of records in the BBDB.
To install bbdb, run the following command in macOS terminal (Applications->Utilities->Terminal)
sudo port install bbdb
To see what files were installed by bbdb, run:
port contents bbdb
To later upgrade bbdb, run:
sudo port selfupdate && sudo port upgrade bbdb
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