Scott Lawrence wrote:
> 
>     There are a great many people here using VMS mail, one component
> of which adds a date-time stamp into the From field of a mail header
> such that I receive header lines like this:
> 
> From: node::user (Real U. Name 01-Oct-1993 1316 -0400)

That's absolutely disgusting...  What do they think the Date field is for,
exactly?

> Any hints on how I can recognize these and prevent them getting added
> to my database (or translate them into "???" or something)?

I suppose the easiest way would be to put a special case into mail-extr so
that it realizes that names matching that pattern are not names at all.

        -- Jamie

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