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)