try 'nbook a'

[cut]: Too many open files
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "./nbook", line 167, in
File "./nbook", line 72, in init
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/notmuch/message.py", line 233, in get_header
notmuch.errors.NullPointerError

The proper way to get any performance is to reimplement with some kind of database. This is very evident when you see nottoomuch-addresses[1] at work.

[1] http://www.guru-group.fi/~too/nottoomuch/nottoomuch-addresses/

It would be good to permit adding a prefix to the search for addresses. For example, I want to search addresses only over the last four years, because I don't care about the smiths' from 2001.

Basically something like this:

nbook -p "not folder:trash and 1346580048..1349172048" smith

nbook returns multiple addresses use different capitalization. Since capitalization doesn't matter for email addresses, they are identical and only one should be reported.

Can you sort found addresses by date? Either the mail date or the filesystem timestamp come into mind. The latter is an interesting concept, because it means that addresses of mails you accessed recently are higher up.

$ ./nbook smi
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "./nbook", line 187, in
print addresses
File "./nbook", line 125, in str
return self.print_addrs()
File "./nbook", line 170, in print_addrs
addrs = self.find_addrs(query)
File "./nbook", line 162, in find_addrs
return self.uniquify_addrs(maddrs)
File "./nbook", line 113, in uniquify_addrs
last = addrs[-1]
IndexError: list index out of range

got it working with this at the beginning

!/usr/bin/env python2

./nbook smi*

nbook should recognize that * is a wild card match in notmuch and thus report any form of smi*