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Re: issue with mail-extract-address-components
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Andreas Schwab |
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Re: issue with mail-extract-address-components |
Date: |
Wed, 15 Mar 2017 21:42:04 +0100 |
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On Mär 15 2017, Eric Abrahamsen <address@hidden> wrote:
> I got an email with a malformed CC line:
>
> Lörsch, Karl <address@hidden>, "Wegner, Simon" <address@hidden>
>
> Ie, no quotes around the first name. `mail-extract-address-components'
> splits on the comma, as I suppose it should, and its return value is:
>
> (("Lörsch" "Lörsch")
> ("Karl" "address@hidden")
> ("Simon Wegner" "address@hidden"))
>
> It's doing the best it can here, but I would expect ("Lörsch" nil) as
> the first element, which would make it easier for other functions to
> handle the return value correctly.
Does mail-extract-address-components actually care whether the singleton
is a valid address? Should it handle address@hidden different from foo? But
foo could actually be a valid address in the local domain.
Andreas.
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