bionic (1) bbdb-srv.1.gz

NAME

       bbdb-srv - Converts Mail-Headers to an Emacs-Lisp String.

SYNOPSIS

       echo Some Headers | bbdb-srv

DESCRIPTION

       This script reads a block of message headers on stdin, and converts them to an emacs-lisp string (quoting
       all dangerous characters) and then uses the `gnudoit' program to cause a running Emacs process to  invoke
       the `bbdb-srv' function with that string.

       This  has  the  effect  of  causing  the  running Emacs to display the BBDB record corresponding to these
       headers.

       See the Emacs side of things in bbdb-srv.el for more info.

       A trivial application of this is the shell command:

          echo 'From: Jamie Zawinski <jwz@netscape.com>' | bbdb-srv.perl

       which will cause the corresponding record to be displayed.  A more interesting application of this is:

          setenv NS_MSG_DISPLAY_HOOK bbdb-srv.perl

       which will hook BBDB up to Mozilla (Unix Netscape Mail and Netscape News versions 3.0b2 and later only.)

       This manual page was written for the Debian distribution because the original program  does  not  have  a
       manual page.  Instead, it has documentation in the GNU Info format; see below.

SEE ALSO

       bbdb-areacode-split(1), bbdb-unlazy-lock(1).  bbdb-srv(1).
       The  bbdb  is fully documented by The insidious Big Brother Database for mail and news, available via the
       Infonode bbdb

AUTHOR

       This manual page was written by  Joerg  Jaspert  (JJ)  <joerg@goliathbbs.dnsalias.net>,  for  the  Debian
       GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).

                                                 March 31, 2002                                   BBDB-SRV.PL(1)