A.5 Maintaining an address-book with BBDB

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 the current (2015-06-23) development release of BBDB, or releases of BBDB after 3.1.2.⁴².

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 (quote message-user-agent))
(setq mu4e-view-mode-hook (quote (bbdb-mua-auto-update visual-line-mode)))
(setq mu4e-compose-complete-addresses nil)
(setq bbdb-mua-pop-up t)
(setq bbdb-mua-pop-up-window-size 5)

After this, you should be able to:

• In mu4e-view mode, add the sender of the email to BBDB with C-u :
• Tab-complete addresses from BBDB when composing emails
• View the BBDB contact while viewing a message