org-contacts

[dmgm]

I dont use BBDB, I use org-contacts. It's straight forward, has some integration with gnus (enough to select from a drop down in the to: field). I think gnorb sounds interesting, but is BBDB necessary, and could org-contacts be utilised (given it's an org file)?

[girzel]

BBDB isn't necessary -- you can use Gnorb without it. There's no integration for org-contacts at the moment, however.

It's on my "long list" to provide pluggable support for the "contacts" part of Gnorb, so you could use BBDB, org-contacts, EBDB, or one of the other contact packages. That will take me a while to get to, though!