NAME¶
mu_cfind - find contacts in the
mu database and export them for use in
other programs.
SYNOPSIS¶
mu cfind [options] [<pattern>]
DESCRIPTION¶
mu cfind is the
mu command for finding
contacts (name and
e-mail address of people who were either sender or receiver of mail). There
are different output formats available, for importing the contacts into other
programs.
When you index your messages (see
mu index),
mu creates a list of
unique e-mail addresses found and the accompanying name. In case the same
e-mail address is used with different names, the most recent non-empty name is
used.
mu cfind starts a search for contacts that match a
regular
expression. For example:
$ mu cfind '@gmail.com'
would find all contacts with a gmail-address, while
$ mu cfind Mary
would find all contact with Mary in either name or e-mail address.
If you do not specify any search expression,
mu cfind will return the
full list of contacts.
The regular expressions are Perl-compatible (as per the PCRE-library).
OPTIONS¶
- --format=plain|mutt-alias|mutt-ab|wl|org-contact|bbdb|csv
- sets the output format to the given value. The following
are available:
| --format= | description |
|-------------+-----------------------------------|
| plain | default, simple list |
| mutt-alias | mutt alias-format |
| mutt-ab | mutt external address book format |
| wl | wanderlust addressbook format |
| org-contact | org-mode org-contact format |
| bbdb | BBDB format |
| csv | comma-separated values |
RETURN VALUE¶
mu cfind returns 0 upon successful completion -- that is, at least one
contact was found. Anything else leads to a non-zero return value, for
example:
| code | meaning |
|------+--------------------------------|
| 0 | ok |
| 1 | general error |
| 2 | no matches (for 'mu cfind') |
INTEGRATION WITH MUTT¶
You can use
mu cfind as an external address book server for
mutt.
For this to work, add the following to your
muttrc:
set query_command = "mu cfind --format=mutt-ab '%s'"
Now, in mutt, you can easily search for e-mail address using the
query-command, which is (by default) accessible by pressing
Q.
ENCODING¶
mu cfind output is encoded according to the current locale except for
--format=bbdb. This is hard-coded to UTF-8, and as such specified in
the output-file, so emacs/bbdb can handle it correctly without guessing.
BUGS¶
Please report bugs if you find them at
http://code.google.com/p/mu0/issues/list.
AUTHOR¶
Dirk-Jan C. Binnema <djcb@djcbsoftware.nl>
SEE ALSO¶
mu(1) mu-index(1) mu-find(1) pcrepattern(3)
