User Names in the Summary buffer

[jvinson@cheux.ecs.umass.edu (Jack Vinson)]

>>>>> "SK" == Saileshwar Krishnamurthy <krish@cs.purdue.edu> writes:

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

This probably has something to do with mail-extr, the package that is used
to extract the address and full name from the headers of the message.
According to the function mail-extract-address-components, if the full name
cannot be found it will be left empty.  Thus the problem.

It would be nice if we could (optionally?) have gnus insert the sender's
address if the full name is empty.

I use the BBDB package and use it to insert the names from BBDB into the
summary line, instead of names from mail-extract-address-components.  This
way, when I find someone who doesn't have a full name in the headers I can
add it manually to the database.  I've also found that BBDB will insert the
person's address instead, contrary to what Kai Grossjohn just said.

BBDB can be found at
ftp://archive.cis.ohio-state.edu:/pub/gnu/emacs/elisp-archive/packages/bbdb-1.50.tar.Z
among other places.  You'll also need gnus-bbdb from Brian Edmonds:
http://www.cs.ubc.ca/spider/edmonds/gnus-bbdb.el

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