Re: People with From: <mail@domain.com>

[Erik Toubro Nielsen <erik@ifad.dk>]

Pavel.Janik@inet.cz writes:

> Hi,
> 
> when people have 
> 
>  From: <mail@domain.com>
> 
> in their headers, Gnus reports it as empty sender in summary buffer even if
> mail-use-rfc822's value is t. How can I avoid it? I'd like to have at least
> mail@domain.com specified as sender. I'm trying to simulate this behaviour
> with this email (I have set the From: header by hand to the evil value) :-)
> -- 
> Pavel Janík ml.
> Pavel.Janik@inet.cz
> 
> 

Please try this patch I have used for some time. It works by returning
the same list as mail-extract-address-components, the other suggested
value of the variable gnus-extract-address-components. The problem is
that name is never false in the (or name from) test, so name is always
returned even when being an empty string. 

--- gnus-util.el.~1~	Thu Feb 17 16:14:45 2000
+++ gnus-util.el	Wed Apr 26 15:49:33 2000
@@ -164,8 +164,8 @@
 	(and (string-match "(.*" from)
 	     (setq name (substring from (1+ (match-beginning 0))
 				   (match-end 0)))))
-    ;; Fix by Hallvard B Furuseth <h.b.furuseth@usit.uio.no>.
-    (list (or name from) (or address from))))
+    (list (if (string= name "") nil name) (or address from))))
+
 
 (defun gnus-fetch-field (field)
   "Return the value of the header FIELD of current article."

-- 
Erik Toubro Nielsen, <erik@ifad.dk>