From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/4599 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Greg Stark Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: feature request: handle broken From headers that include signature Date: 06 Jan 1996 23:01:42 -0500 Organization: Massachvsetts Institvte of Technology Message-ID: <9601071359.AA12136@fierce-bad-rabbit.MIT.EDU> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035145325 30241 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 20:22:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 20:22:05 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: ding-request@ifi.uio.no Original-Received: from ifi.uio.no (ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.2]) by miranova.com (8.7.3/8.6.9) with SMTP id GAA18155 for ; Sun, 7 Jan 1996 06:25:42 -0800 Original-Received: from MIT.EDU (PACIFIC-CARRIER-ANNEX.MIT.EDU [18.69.0.28]) by ifi.uio.no with SMTP (8.6.11/ifi2.4) id for ; Sun, 7 Jan 1996 14:59:34 +0100 Original-Received: from FIERCE-BAD-RABBIT.MIT.EDU by MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA15508; Sun, 7 Jan 96 08:59:30 EST Original-Received: by fierce-bad-rabbit.MIT.EDU (5.57/4.7) id AA12136; Sun, 7 Jan 96 08:59:32 -0500 Original-To: Gnus Mailing List In-Reply-To: craffert@sps.ml.com's message of Thu, 7 Dec 95 14:52:03 EST Original-Lines: 19 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:4599 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:4599 There's a particular configuration error some people make that causes their mailer to use their .signature file as their mail signature. That is, use their 5+ line signature in the From header of their mail messages. Gnus doesn't simplify the header in any way when this happens, it does something like this: +[ 26: --------------------] Cockatrices, Basilisks and other Gargoyle Manufacturers From: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Obviously the best it can do is some kind of heuristic, but it seems like Gnus should be able to tell at least sometimes that it's not looking at the author's name. I would need to see a few more examples before I even had a decent suggestion for what the heuristic should be. -- greg