Re: Summary format question

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>]

Nelson Jose dos Santos Ferreira <Nelson.Ferreira@inesc.pt> writes:

> BTW, is there a function to extract the value of a specified header ?

Use `mail-header-from' (etc.) on the header parameter passed to the
function pointed to by the %u spec.

> I want to use the %u specifier to extract the From, check for one of my
> addresses. If it's me output -> and the contents of the To: header.
> I'd like to do the same translation as the %a does.

The definition of %a is

(or (car (funcall gnus-extract-address-components gnus-tmp-from))
    gnus-tmp-from)

> BTW, can we customize the %a translation ? I sometimes receive mail from
> people which have words in parentesis which describe their "group", i.e. all
> sysadm have (SYSADM) appended and I'd like to ignore that and give the other
> components of the name.

Quoth the manual:

   Gnus will use the value of the `gnus-extract-address-components'
variable as a function for getting the name and address parts of a
`From' header.  Two pre-defined function exist:
`gnus-extract-address-components', which is the default, quite fast,
and too simplistic solution; and `mail-extract-address-components',
which works very nicely, but is slower.  The default function will
return the wrong answer in 5% of the cases.  If this is unacceptable to
you, use the other function instead.

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