Re: mail-extract-address-components vs gnus-...

[Joe Wells <jbw@cs.bu.edu>]

>>>>> "Justin" == Justin Sheehy <justin@linus.mitre.org> writes:

  >> From: & Niksic <hrvoje@foo.bar>
  >> 
  >> ...would be translated as
  >> 
  >> From: Hrvoje Niksic <hrvoje@foo.bar>
  >> 
  >> mail-extr does this "properly."

  Justin> I think that "intentional" and "proper" are not the same thing.

  Justin> See discussion on gnu.emacs.bug.

  Justin> Yes, I realize that it probably isn't going to change anytime
  Justin> soon, as that behavior was intentionally caused.  I still think
  Justin> that it is a rather boneheaded "feature".

There is an old UNIX quasi-standard that "&" in the GECOS (full name and
other random information) field of a user's passwd entry stands for their
username capitalized.  Unfortunately, sometimes these escape the local
system without having the "&" replaced.  This happens often enough to make
it worthwhile for mail-extract-address-components to handle it.  It would
be reasonable to restrict this to only do it when the "&" is either at the
beginning or end of the full name part.

-- 
Joe Wells <jbw@dcs.gla.ac.uk>