bug#47076: 27.1; Unwanted warnings about unqualified recipient addresses from message.el

[Eric Abrahamsen]

On 03/11/21 19:17 PM, Glenn Morris wrote:
> Eric Abrahamsen wrote:
>
>> Peter Schultze <petersch@cs.ucla.edu> writes:
>>
>>> This could be related to bug#23054 
>
> I think it is due to https://debbugs.gnu.org/32639 (ff7560b6ff),
> which seems to offer no way to customize what is "invalid".

It looks like adding more control over that would require some fairly
substantial changes to ietf-drums.el. Personally, I've wanted a way to
tell it to ignore a trailing comma: right now it will look at a header
like "To: bob <bob@bob.com>, " and complain that the trailing
comma/space is invalid.

But that seems like it should be a separate bug report.

>> You should be able to shut this off by pushing '(bogus-recipient .
>> disabled) to `message-syntax-checks'. See the "News Headers" section of
>> the Message info manual.
>
> This documentation could be improved:
> 1) bogus-recipient is not listed as an option

Do you mean in the customization option type? I see there's a "fixme"
comment there, I can provide a patch to make the types more explicit.

> 2) it's under "News Headers", yet here it applies to mail

Maybe a note and link in the "Message Headers" section (which seems more
general anyway, and a likely place for a user to look if they were
annoyed by this behavior)?

Eric