Re: Email address handling

[Colin Rafferty <colin.rafferty@msdw.com>]

Randal L Schwartz writes:

>>>>>> "Kai" =3D=3D Kai Gro=DFjohann <Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE> writes:

Kai> I think this is because it uses a regexp to find them, and the regexp
Kai> doesn't find normal mail addresses in the body.  Doubtless it should
Kai> be easy to add this.  Hm.  Yes, there is the variable
Kai> gnus-button-alist which might help.

> I think you mistyped "h a r d" as "easy" there.  The regex to match an
> RFC822 email address is about 7000 characters long, and would take far
> too long to scan each incoming message.  (I've got some friends
> working on a similar Perl module, and are being likewise frustrated.)

It doesn't have to be perfect, it just needs to be close.

      "[-+_a-zA-Z0-9.]@[-+_a-zA-Z0-9][-+_a-zA-Z0-9.]*[-+_a-zA-Z0-9]"

Maybe add a couple of more non-word characters, and you should get 95%
of what we're looking for, and no mismatches (except message-ids).

-- 
Colin