Re: How to strip names out of To: and CC:

[Reiner Steib <reinersteib+gmane@imap.cc>]

On Fri, Nov 09 2007, jidanni@jidanni.org wrote:
> Dear Gnus Pals: I have changed the function message-get-reply-headers.
> I have put the new version, all 200+ lines of it, in my .gnus.el file.
>
> ;;jidanni changed
> ;;	       (cons (downcase (mail-strip-quoted-names addr)) addr))
> ;;to
> 	       (cons (downcase (mail-strip-quoted-names addr))
> 		     (downcase (mail-strip-quoted-names addr))))
> ;;to avoid looking like a fool, even more consistantly than
> ;;mail-extr-ignore-realname-equals-mailbox-name and
> ;;mail-extr-ignore-single-names could, before gnus ignored them anyway
>
> Of course you, the authors, could kindly add one little variable, say
> message-austere-to-cc-reply, to toggle so we can avoid having to
> redefine the whole hundreds line function.
>
> No, this one line change cannot be done with one line in some hook, so
> forget that.

On Fri, Nov 09 2007, jidanni@jidanni.org wrote:
> Indeed, here lies your opportunity to end the embarrassment of
> To: "d@d.d" <d@d.d>
> which many of you seem to think looks just fine in one's outbound mail.

Should be possible with the CVS version now:

2008-03-19  Reiner Steib  <Reiner.Steib@gmx.de>

	* message.el (message-alter-recipients-discard-bogus-full-name): New
	function.
	(message-alter-recipients-function): New variable.
	(message-get-reply-headers): Use it.

,----[ <f1> v message-alter-recipients-function RET ]
| message-alter-recipients-function is a variable defined in `message.el'.
| Its value is message-alter-recipients-discard-bogus-full-name
| 
| Documentation:
| Function called to allow alteration of reply header structures.
| It is called in `message-get-reply-headers' for each recipient.
| The function is called with one parameter, a cons cell ...
| 
| You can customize this variable.
`----

,----[ <f1> f message-alter-recipients-discard-bogus-full-name RET ]
| message-alter-recipients-discard-bogus-full-name is a Lisp function
| in `message.el'.
| (message-alter-recipients-discard-bogus-full-name addrcell)
| 
| Discard mail address in full names.
| When the full name in reply headers contains the mail
| address (e.g. "foo@bar <foo@bar>"), discard full name.
| addrcell is a cons cell where the car is the mail address and the
| cdr is the complete address (full name and mail address).
`----

Bye, Reiner.
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