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You want BBDB, the insidious Big Brother DataBase.

There's an *Info* manual about BBDB; give it a look.

Most of my BBDB customizations, some minor details redacted:

(require 'bbdb)
(require 'bbdb-hooks)
(require 'message)
(require 'message-x)	; Kai's wunnerful TAB-based completer.
(setq bbdb-hashtable-size 32761
      gnus-select-group-hook
      (function
       (lambda ()
	 ;; Enable BBDB activities in mail groups.
	 (setq bbdb/news-auto-create-p
	       (if (string-match
		    "^\\(personal\\|list\\|archive\\|usenet\\)\\|gnu.emacs"
		    gnus-newsgroup-name)
		   t nil))
	 ))
        bbdb-use-pop-up t)
(add-hook 'gnus-startup-hook 'bbdb-insinuate-gnus)
(add-hook 'message-setup-hook 'bbdb-define-all-aliases)
(bbdb-initialize 'gnus 'message)
(setq bbdb-file "~/Mail/.private/.bbdb"
      bbdb-offer-save 'always
      bbdb-notice-hook 'bbdb-auto-notes-hook
      bbdb-pop-up-target-lines 9
      bbdb-auto-notes-alist
      '(("user-agent" (".*" interface 0 t))
	("x-mailer" (".*" interface 0 t))
	("x-newsreader" (".*" interface 0 t))
	("x-now-playing" (".*" playlist 0))
;	("xref" ("\\b[^ ]+:[0-9]+.*" seen-in 0))
	("newsgroups" ("\\([^,]*\\),?" posted-to "\\1" t))))
(put 'seen-in 'field-separator "; ")