This group is not part of the GNU Project.
BBDB is the Insidious Big Brother Database for GNU Emacs. It provides an address book for email and snail mail addresses, phone numbers and the like. It can be linked with various Emacs mail clients (Message and Mail mode, Rmail, Gnus, MH-E, Mu4e, VM, and Wanderlust). BBDB is fully customizable.
BBDB recently went through a major re-write which has been released as BBDB 3. BBDB 3 is fully compatible with GNU Emacs 24 and 25 (but not with older versions of GNU Emacs nor -so far- with Xemacs).
Registration Date: Sat 21 Aug 2010 02:41:00 PM UTC
License: GNU General Public License v3 or later
Development Status: 5 - Production/Stable
This list is for discussion and development of BBDB for GNU Emacs.
Support for GNU Emacs 23 has been discontinued in the development branch of BBDB. The last release 3.1.2 still supports it and GNU Emacs 25.1 has been released in the meanwhile.
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