Re: Bug in mail-extract-address-components (mail-extr.el)?

[lawrence mitchell]

[...] mail-e-a-c vs gnus-e-a-c.

Jesper Harder commented:
>> But usually `mail-extract-address-components' is more reliable (but also
>> really complicated).

To which Reiner Steib responded:
> 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

mail-e-a-c also fails when for a single name/comment part of the
email address:

(mail-extract-address-components "lawrence <foo@bar.com>")
    => (nil "foo@bar.com")

Which, by my reading of RFC2822 is a valid address form (ICBW).

Time for a bug report I wonder?

-- 
lawrence mitchell <wence@gmx.li>