Note, mu4e supports built-in address autocompletion; Address autocompletion, and that is the recommended way to do this. However, it is also
possible to manage your addresses with
BBDB.
To enable BBDB, add to your ~/.emacs (or its moral equivalent,
such as ~/.emacs.d/init.el) the following after the
(require 'mu4e) line:
;; Load BBDB (Method 1) (require 'bbdb-loaddefs) ;; OR (Method 2) ;; (require 'bbdb-loaddefs "/path/to/bbdb/lisp/bbdb-loaddefs.el") ;; OR (Method 3) ;; (autoload 'bbdb-insinuate-mu4e "bbdb-mu4e") ;; (bbdb-initialize 'message 'mu4e) (setq bbdb-mail-user-agent 'mu4e-user-agent) (setq mu4e-view-rendered-hook 'bbdb-mua-auto-update) (setq mu4e-compose-complete-addresses nil) (setq bbdb-mua-pop-up t) (setq bbdb-mua-pop-up-window-size 5) (setq mu4e-view-show-addresses t)
For recent emacs (29 and later), address-completion may need some extra setup:
(add-hook 'message-mode-hook
(lambda ()
(add-to-list 'completion-at-point-functions
#'eudc-capf-complete)))
or, if that does not work:
(add-hook 'message-mode-hook
(lambda ()
(add-to-list 'completion-at-point-functions
#'message-expand-name)))
After this, you should be able to: