>>>>> "Howard" == Howard Melman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Howard>
Howard> On Aug 28, 2001, Klaus Zeitler wrote:
Howard>
>> is there a way (like a regexp or some such) to remove additional text
>> from user full names. I keep getting mails that contain user full names
>> followed by text like:
>> first_name last_name via the vacation program
>> or also:
>> first_name last_name via Hypernews at ...
>>
Howard>
Howard> It helps to know what version. I found that 2.32 worked
sorry I forgot to mention, I'm also using 2.32
Howard> okay but 2.33 (from the cvs tree) had some issues. Look at
Howard> the value of bbdb-extract-address-component-regexps it's
Howard> what figures this out. it calls bbdb-clean-username which
Howard> does what you want. I also added a call to
Howard> bbdb-snarf-nice-real-name which was in 2.32 but was
Howard> removed. This function deals with outlook format names of
Howard> "last, first" so that you don't get asked about adding that
Howard> as an alternate.
Howard>
Well I checked and it looks as if none of the functions/variables you
mention is used when I look at mails with those odd addresses.
I debugged a bit and (with Gnus as mail tool when I select an article with
e.g. address "[EMAIL PROTECTED] (via the vacation program)" in the
summary) the stack trace is:
bbdb/gnus-pop-up-bbdb-buffer()
bbdb/gnus-update-record(nil)
mail-fetch-field
bbdb-annotate-message-sender(
"[EMAIL PROTECTED] (via the vacation program)" t t nil)
mail-extract-address-components
i.e. the full from address is extracted with mail-fetch-field in
bbdb/gnus-update-record and then used in bbdb-annotate-message-sender.
In bbdb-annotate-message-sender mail-extract-address-components returns
a list ("via the vacation program" "[EMAIL PROTECTED]") where the first
element is interpreted as "name" the 2nd one as "net-address".
To me it seems as if BBDB relies on the generic functions mail-fetch-field
and mail-extract-address-components and I can't find any hooks or
matches against regexps to discard some part of the address.
Klaus
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