From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/4178 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: jvinson@cheux.ecs.umass.edu (Jack Vinson) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: User Names in the Summary buffer Date: 30 Nov 1995 08:59:56 -0500 Organization: University of Massachusetts Sender: jvinson@cheux.ecs.umass.edu Message-ID: References: <199511291831.KAA04524@block.statsci.com> <199511300635.WAA07790@cyclone.Stanford.EDU> <199511300742.CAA09761@ector.cs.purdue.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035144963 28759 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 20:16:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 20:16:03 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: ding-request@ifi.uio.no Original-Received: from ifi.uio.no (ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.2]) by miranova.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) with ESMTP id HAA20219 for ; Thu, 30 Nov 1995 07:04:25 -0800 Original-Received: from cheux.ecs.umass.edu (cheux.ecs.umass.edu [128.119.82.11]) by ifi.uio.no with SMTP (8.6.11/ifi2.4) id for ; Thu, 30 Nov 1995 15:05:31 +0100 Original-Received: by cheux.ecs.umass.edu (5.65/DEC-Ultrix/4.3) id AA14068; Thu, 30 Nov 1995 09:00:16 -0500 Original-To: ding@ifi.uio.no In-Reply-To: Saileshwar Krishnamurthy's message of Thu, 30 Nov 1995 02:42:49 -0500 Original-Lines: 33 In-Reply-To: Saileshwar Krishnamurthy's message of Thu, 30 Nov 1995 02:42:49 -0500 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:4178 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:4178 >>>>> "SK" == Saileshwar Krishnamurthy 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 -- Jack Vinson jvinson@cheux.ecs.umass.edu "I Spit on Your Grave" -- double feature at the drive-in as seen "I Thumb Through Your Magazines" from the Qwik-E mart