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Re: Handling "via" addresses
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Sam Steingold |
Subject: |
Re: Handling "via" addresses |
Date: |
Thu, 07 Jul 2022 10:58:17 -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. Is this
> an issue? How are these two functions used elsewhere?
please see https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=56422
Lars (who re-wrote gnus and wrote `mail-header-parse-address' writes):
> 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'.
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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, 2022/07/07
- Re: Handling "via" addresses,
Sam Steingold <=
- Re: Handling "via" addresses, Roland Winkler, 2022/07/08
- Re: Handling "via" addresses, Sam Steingold, 2022/07/12