Re: Missing name in summary line

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

Jack Vinson writes:
> Well, if the guy is in your BBDB data base, then if you pick up the
> file gnus-bbdb.el that Brian Edmonds put together and insinuate the
> changes into Gnus his name will show up in there.  If he isn't it
> should just pop up whatever mailextr figures out, or just the
> address.  Of course, I can never find a reference to the original
> files.  Brian?  Speak up.

A message I saved some time back is tacked on at the end.

> I am a bit surprised, though, that mailextr doesn't just use the
> address as a last resort for your friend joe.luser.

I had patched mail-extr to return ("joe" "joe@some.where") in response
to addresses of the from "jose@some.where" (or indeed, in response to
"Joe <joe@some.where>").  However, this breaks bbdb, since you get
lots of bogus matches due to bbdb matching on a single name alone.  I
backed out the patch a few months back.  If you want to play with it,
let me know, I might be able to dig it up.

Also, gnus-extract-address-components needs to be updated to handle
addresses of these two forms correctly:
a) "<luser@x.y>"
b) "<luser@x.y> (I. Use. Periods here)"  

In a) the <> is redundant, but people do it anyway.  In b) the Name
should be in double quotes instead of a comment, but people do this
quite infrequently as well.

-Sudish


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From: Brian Edmonds <edmonds@cs.ubc.ca>
Subject: Re: BBDB with GNUS5.0
To: info-bbdb@cs.uiuc.edu
Date: Mon, 4 Sep 1995 17:43:23 -0700

>>>>> "Jack" == Jack Vinson <jvinson@cheux.ecs.umass.edu> writes:

Jack> There is an automatic way to get gnus-bbdb, but I've forgotten it.
Jack> Try sending him e-mail.

You can get it on the web at
  http://www.cs.ubc.ca/spider/edmonds/gnus-bbdb.el
or you can send mail to majordomo@edmonds.home.cs.ubc.ca with the
following line in the body: get misc gnus-bbdb.el

The current release is 1.19 -- if you get an older one, let me know, as
my RCS files have been a bit out of sync lately.

Jack> If you already have gnus-bbdb, you need to recompile it after
Jack> changing the "header-from" to "mail-header-from" in line 88.

I'm rather behind and am still running an early 0.9x release of ding.
I'll upgrade to 5.0 RSN, and when I do will be bringing gnus-bbdb up to
date.  Jack's summary of the installation steps to follow was concise
and correct.

Jack> And the mark has been changed from "*" to "+"

The code I got from Sudish that eventually morphed into gnus-bbdb used +
so that stuck (or changed it gratuitously, I forget :).  I've since
tried *, but I find + sticks out a bit better visually, so I've seen no
particular reason to change the default.

-- 
 o         Brian Edmonds <bedmonds@cs.ubc.ca> (occasional MSc student)
 \\_/\_,   Applications Analyst, University of British Columbia, Canada
(*)   (*)  See http://www.cs.ubc.ca/spider/edmonds for me and my hobbies

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