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Re: Handling "via" addresses
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Sam Steingold |
Subject: |
Re: Handling "via" addresses |
Date: |
Thu, 07 Jul 2022 10:51:00 -0400 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/29.0.50 (darwin) |
> * Roland Winkler <jvaxyre@tah.bet> [2022-07-06 15:15:39 -0500]:
>
> On Wed, Jul 06 2022, Sam Steingold wrote:
>> Subject: [PATCH] Use `mail-header-parse-address' instead of
>> `mail-extract-address-components'.
>
> There is also `gnus-extract-address-components' that is supposedly
> faster than `mail-header-parse-address', though less accurate.
I don't think speed is an issue here in bbdb.
The `gnus-extract-address-components' function is a "fast hack" for data
presentation in gnus, it is not intended for "long term storage".
> I believe the approach of `mail-extract-address-components' is rather
> heuristic. Could it make sense to declare it obsolete or make it an
> alias for one of the other functions?
This is a question for Emacs maintainers.
Empirically, `mail-header-parse-address' is more accurate than
`mail-extract-address-components' so I see no reason not to switch.
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- Re: Handling "via" addresses, Sam Steingold, 2022/07/01
- Re: Handling "via" addresses, Sam Steingold, 2022/07/05
- Re: Handling "via" addresses, Roland Winkler, 2022/07/05
- Re: Handling "via" addresses, Sam Steingold, 2022/07/06
- Re: Handling "via" addresses, Sam Steingold, 2022/07/06
- Re: Handling "via" addresses, Roland Winkler, 2022/07/06
- Re: Handling "via" addresses,
Sam Steingold <=
- Re: Handling "via" addresses, Sam Steingold, 2022/07/07
- Re: Handling "via" addresses, Roland Winkler, 2022/07/08
- Re: Handling "via" addresses, Sam Steingold, 2022/07/12