This program serves as an address book based on notmuch queries.
nbook allows the user to query a notmuch database for email
addresses. It looks in the to:, from: and cc: headers of the
email messages for matches. Unique matching email addresses are
printed on the terminal. The purpose of the program is to serve as a
search based address book. It is designed to replicate the abook
program, for use with text based email clients like mutt.
The underlying idea to use search queries as an address book was
inspired by Gmail. The idea to use email indexers (like notmuch)
to extract the email addresses was conceived by Dirk-Jan C. Binnema,
author of mu (a notmuch inspired email indexer) and mu4e (an Emacs
based email client for mu). Since the inspiration was the Gmail
interface, the name and email matching is done case-insensitively.
I hope you enjoy this little utility.
set query_command = "nbook '%s'"
nbook requires Python 2.7 or higher as it depends on the
argparse module for option parsing.
There performance issues for large email indexes. There are plans to implement a cacheing database in the future.
When I wrote this I was unaware there were similar (much smarter) utilities already out there. You can find more information in this thread.