bbdb-srv.pl(1)
NAME
bbdb-srv.pl - Converts Mail-Headers to an Emacs-Lisp String.
SYNOPSIS
echo Some Headers | bbdb-srv.pl
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.pl(1), bbdb-unlazy-lock.pl(1). bbdb-srv.pl(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).