Re: Email address handling

[merlyn@stonehenge.com (Randal L. Schwartz)]

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>>>>> "Kai" == Kai Großjohann <Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE> writes:

Kai> I think this is because it uses a regexp to find them, and the regexp
Kai> doesn't find normal mail addresses in the body.  Doubtless it should
Kai> be easy to add this.  Hm.  Yes, there is the variable
Kai> gnus-button-alist which might help.

I think you mistyped "h a r d" as "easy" there.  The regex to match an
RFC822 email address is about 7000 characters long, and would take far
too long to scan each incoming message.  (I've got some friends
working on a similar Perl module, and are being likewise frustrated.)

For example:  fred!barney@stonehenge.com is a legitimate email address.
And so is that with included whitespace, as fred! barney@stonehenge.com,
but how do you distinguish that from "hey, fred! barney@stonehenge.com"
where only the "barney..." part is the email?

Nope.  The problem is a DWIM problem... there's not enough encoding
in the email message to correctly identify the sequence of characters
that *may* be an email address.

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