Re: mail-extr.el brokenness

[Josh Huber <huber@alum.wpi.edu>]

Jan Rychter <jan@rychter.com> writes:

> Are there plans to work on mail-extr, rewrite it, maybe replace it
> with something else?

I went through this a few weeks ago wrt bbdb not working with Kai's
newly encoded latin-9 name.

> Any useful advice?

Well, the conclusion we came to was that mail-extr should *not* have
to deal with 8 bit characters, since 8 bit characters are not allowed
in message headers.

What should be done is:

1) extract the header contents with mail-extr functions from the raw
   message
2) decode any encoded header contents
3) use (for bbdb, etc...)

Does this make sense?  Are you having these problems when dealing with
bbdb, or something else?

ttyl,

-- 
Josh Huber