Re: message-user-mail-address and other addresses

[Hallvard B Furuseth <h.b.furuseth@usit.uio.no>]

> Yup.  0.74 will use `mail-extract-address-components' to extract the
> address parts.  I think it does a good job.

Great!  And sgnus itself no longer contains any regexps that will fail
if there are, say, spaces in an address?

> I tried it on all the examples you gave, and it failed only on one:
> 
>>   @bsd.urgu.e-burg.su,@optoel.uucp:aleck@optoel.urgu.e-burg.su
> 
> (nth 1 (mail-extract-address-components
> "@bsd.urgu.e-burg.su,@optoel.uucp:aleck@optoel.urgu.e-burg.su"))
>  =>
> "aleck@optoel.urgu.e-burg.su"

No, I think that's correct.  The @foo: stuff appears to be routing
information on the `From ' line.


BTW, about (user-mail-address): Erik Naggum thought the best way was
	(defun user-mail-address (...)
	  (or (and user-mail-address-function
		   (eq user-mail-address user-mail-address-default)
		   (apply user-mail-address-function ...))
	      user-mail-address))
where user-mail-address-function is *not* encouraged to set
user-mail-address, but instead does it own bookkeeping.


> However, many (many) people, especially people mostly
> using XEmacs, it seems, have a `user-mail-address' that contains more
> than just the address.  I don't normally think one should cater to
> brokenness, but in this instance there were just too many people that
> experienced problems.

Hum.  Well, if we are going to un-break these as far as possible --
How do they write those addresses?  Is there some "semi-standard" for
XEmacs on this?  If it's
	"one@address, another@address",
then
	From: Joe Luser <one@address, another@address>
won't work too well...
Maybe we should fix add-log & such things instead...


Regards,

Hallvard