eudc: BBDB
1.2 BBDB
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BBDB is the “Big Brother’s Insidious Database”, a package for Emacs
originally written by Jamie Zawinski which provides rolodex-like
database functionality featuring tight integration with the Emacs mail
and news readers.
It is often used as an enhanced email address book.
EUDC considers BBDB as a directory server back end just like LDAP,
though BBDB has no client/server protocol and thus always resides
locally on your machine. The point in this is not to offer an alternate
way to query your BBDB database (BBDB itself provides much more flexible
ways to do that), but rather to offer an interface to your local
directory that is consistent with the interface to external LDAP
directories. This is particularly interesting when performing queries
on multiple servers.
EUDC also offers a means to insert results from directory queries
into your own local BBDB (
Creating BBDB Records)
Info Catalog
eudc: LDAP
eudc: Overview