Re: Signature in forwarded messages

[Sudish Joseph <joseph@cis.ohio-state.edu>]

Kai Grossjohann writes:
>>>>>> On Thu, 30 Nov 1995 02:42:49 -0500, Saileshwar Krishnamurthy
>>>>>> <krish@cs.purdue.edu> said: 

Sailesh> Just something trivial: Gnus unlike GNUS displays the Name
Sailesh> of the sender of a message rather than the email-address in
Sailesh> a summary buffer.  There are times when people don't have
Sailesh> names, only email-addresses and then that entry in the
Sailesh> Summary buffer is just blank.

> Yes!  Yes!  I get this, too, and have always attributed it to BBDB.
> If you don't use BBDB that might be an indication of a problem with
> Gnus rather than with BBDB or the BBDB/Gnus interaction.

Just FYI.  Both BBDB (mail-extract-address-components, really) and
gnus-extract-address-components can return null full names--but for
different reasons.

mail-extr does it when the name is a single word that is the same as
the person's login id.  It does this so that BBDB doesn't get too many
bogus hits when it's checking for new addresses for known posters.  I
had a patch that altered this behaviour...I backed it out after a few
months, the number of bogus matches was a severe pain.

gnus-extract-address-components gives empty addresses when people use
bogus (non-1036 conformant) address formats.  For e.g., the address
"<xyz@foo.bar> (J. Luser)" is bogus, but occurs with unnerving
frequency, as does "<luser@some.where>".  Currently, it returns null
on these formats, but I think they'd be worth supporting, considering
the frequency with which they're encountered.

-Sudish