Re: mail-extract-address-components doesn't handle MIME-encoded full name

[Kevin Rodgers]

I wrote:

> mail-extract-address-components should either return the MIME-encoded 
> full name
> so the caller can decode it
>
>     ("=?iso-8859-1?q?Laurent=20Laporte?=" "laurentlaporte@yahoo.com")
>
> or decode it itself
>
>     ("Laurent Laporte" "laurentlaporte@yahoo.com")

Or perhaps the caller should decode the From: header contents first; that's what
I'm doing for VM now:

(defadvice mail-extr-voodoo (before vm-decode-mime-encoded-words activate)
  "Decode MIME-encoded words before interepreting the buffer contents."
  (vm-decode-mime-encoded-words))

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<a href="mailto:&lt;kevin.rodgers&#64;ihs.com&gt;";>Kevin Rodgers</a>