From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: Sam Steingold <sds@gnu.org>
Cc: 56422@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#56422: 29.0.50; mail-extract-address-components poorly handles " via " addresses
Date: Thu, 07 Jul 2022 11:10:28 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87bku1guez.fsf@gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <lz1quygtac.fsf@3c22fb11fdab.ant.amazon.com> (Sam Steingold's message of "Wed, 06 Jul 2022 11:22:35 -0400")
Sam Steingold <sds@gnu.org> writes:
> The correct handling would be
>
> (mail-extract-address-components "Po Lu via \"Emacs development discussions.\" <emacs-devel@gnu.org>")
> => ("Emacs development discussions." "emacs-devel@gnu.org")
mail-extract-address-components is a DWIM-ish thing that doesn't have
much documented behaviour -- it just tries to make things "pretty" by
applying lots of (mostly misguided) heuristics. So talking about
"correct" here isn't er correct.
If you have an RFC822bis From header, you should use
`mail-header-parse-address'. If you have something that's vaguely like
a mail header and want to split it, use `mail-header-parse-address-lax'.
--
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
bloggy blog: http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no
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2022-07-06 15:22 bug#56422: 29.0.50; mail-extract-address-components poorly handles " via " addresses Sam Steingold
2022-07-07 9:10 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen [this message]
2022-07-11 10:55 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
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