bug#10406: 24.0.92; mail-extract-address-components returns strange results

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Sam Steingold <sds@gnu.org> writes:

> I find this result surprising (emacs -Q):
>   (mail-extract-address-components "foo.bar@quux.com <foo.bar@quux.com>")
> ==>  ("foo" "foo.bar@quux.com")
> I expected either
>   (nil "foo.bar@quux.com")
> or
>   ("foo bar" "foo.bar@quux.com")

Yes, that function is weird.  I've updated the doc string to it to refer
users to `mail-header-parse-address' instead.

(mail-header-parse-address "foo.bar@quux.com <foo.bar@quux.com>")
=> ("foo.bar@quux.com" . "foo.bar@quux.com")

Packages that then want to display the "name" "foo.bar@quux.com" can
then do whatever they want with it...

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