I'm running code from CVS from July 14th or so, under
emacs 21.3.1 (sparc--netbsdelf, X toolkit)
using MH-E.
I sent mail to John Doe (changing actual name, but matching exact
format of punctuation etc.), having got his email address from someone
else.
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I wanted to add a BBDB entry. I have auto-creation turned off, so I
hit ':' on the message, and got
john d. is not in the db. Add?
This got me
john d.
net: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
So, I edited the name
John Doe
net: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Now, when I 'n' to that message in MH-E, I get asked
Change name "John Doe" to "john d."?
I don't want 'john d.' as an AKA; this is simply an artifact of an
email address with a ., not a way John is known.
I am pretty sure that what is going on is that the code to process
names sees names with a . and extracts a 'real name' field, and this
gets used instead of regular name field. So [EMAIL PROTECTED] gets
treated just like
John D <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
or perhaps
John D. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Had the header said this, the question would be reasonable.
So, I think good behavior (i.e. to do what I want) would be to only do
the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" => "User Name <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>" transform
if there is no name recorded for this entry.
In the meantime, I've added 'john d.' as an AKA so I won't get asked
again.
Thoughts?
--
Greg Troxel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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