Re: [dumb] one you run ./configure then make

On 31 December 2019 06:47 Harry Putnam, wrote:

> Once you've cloned a branch of bbdb from savannah and you've gotten
> successfully thru `./configure', `make' and `make install'
> where is the .bbdb?
>
> What do I put in ~/ for emacs to use?
>
> May sound petty dopey but I expected a .bbdb file to appear
> somewhere.  But do now see one.

you need to initialize bbdb for (probably) gnus, and the .bbdb gets
created once you start creating & adding addresses.


This is what I use, but ...


(require 'bbdb-loaddefs)
(bbdb-initialize 'gnus 'message)
(setq bbdb-complete-mail-allow-cycling t)
(setq bbdb-message-all-addresses t) 
(setq bbdb-mua-update-interactive-p '(query . create))

(bbdb-mua-auto-update-init 'message 'mail)
(setq bbdb-mua-auto-update-p 'query)


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(setq bbdb-default-country "add-your-default-country-here")