From: Reiner Steib <4uce.02.r.steib@gmx.net>
Subject: Re: Bug in mail-extract-address-components (mail-extr.el)?
Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2002 16:29:01 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <v965wwrd8y.fsf@marauder.physik.uni-ulm.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: m31y7kg8y0.fsf@defun.localdomain
On Mon, Sep 23 2002, Jesper Harder wrote:
> Reiner Steib <4uce.02.r.steib@gmx.net> writes:
[...]
>> Instead of "Harald H.-J. Bongartz" I get "Harald H.":
>>
>> Is this a bug in `mail-extract-address-components' or should I use a
>> different function to get the full name?
>
> In this particular case `gnus-extract-address-components' works better:
[...]
> ==> ("Harald H.-J. Bongartz" "bongie@gmx.net")
Thanks for the hint!
> But usually `mail-extract-address-components' is more reliable (but also
> really complicated).
The code of mail-e-a-c spans more than 700 lines, whereas gnus-e-a-c
has only 27 lines. Therefore it's even more surprising that mail-e-a-c
fails for the given example (assuming it's a valid RFC-822 address),
which probably occurs quite often in real life [1]. mail-e-a-c also
fails for this:
(car (mail-extract-address-components "\"K.-H. Foo\" <foo@bar.invalid>"))
==> nil
Bye, Reiner.
[1] At least in Germany such names are not so rare: Abbreviated forms
of Karl-Heinz, ...
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-09-23 14:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-09-23 12:25 Bug in mail-extract-address-components (mail-extr.el)? Reiner Steib
2002-09-23 12:57 ` Jesper Harder
2002-09-23 14:29 ` Reiner Steib [this message]
2002-09-23 14:48 ` lawrence mitchell
2002-09-24 21:30 ` Simon Josefsson
2002-09-24 22:06 ` Simon Josefsson
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