Re: Email address handling

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

Per Abrahamsen <abraham@dina.kvl.dk> writes:

> > Roman> Why doesn't it work for plain e-mail addresses in the body of
> > Roman> the article?
> > 
> > Probably because they are indistinguishable from message-ids?
> 
> Yes, I wrote the original buttonization code, and that was my
> motivation for not recognizing mail addresses.
> 
> Message-ids are recognized after specific keywords, such as "In
> article", which is why the message-id in the second attribution line
> is buttonized.
> 
> Perhaps, these days, we should get a popup asking whether to handle it
> as a mail address or message-id?

That would make sense.  Anybody want to write the code?

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