Evil Boris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> I have seen the msg from Adrian Lanz regarding RFC2047-encoded From:
> fields, a few months back.  I have been using the following patch to
> bbdb.el for a couple of years, with no visible ill effects.  Ulike
> Adrian's patch, mine decodes the From fields before looking them up
> and/or storing them into .bbdb.  Encoded strings are not used or stored
> anywhere.  It requires the presence of rfc2047.el, which was there in
> 21.3, but not in 20.7.

Hi!

rfc2047.el is part of the gnus package under XEmacs.

Therefor I think testing for the availability of the rfc2047 feature is
definitly needed.

Adrian

>
> The patch itself:
>
> *** bbdb.el   Thu Aug 11 13:09:05 2005
> --- bbdb-patched.el   Thu Aug 11 22:27:06 2005
> ***************
> *** 3126,3132 ****
>   \(assuming that CREATE-P is true\).  "
>     (let* ((data (if (consp from)
>                      from ; if from is a cons, it's pre-parsed (hack hack)
> !                  (mail-extract-address-components from)))
>            (name (car data))
>            (net (car (cdr data))))
>       (if (equal name net) (setq name nil))
> --- 3126,3134 ----
>   \(assuming that CREATE-P is true\).  "
>     (let* ((data (if (consp from)
>                      from ; if from is a cons, it's pre-parsed (hack hack)
> !              ;; BA was here.  This needs rfc2047.el
> !                  (mail-extract-address-components
> !               (rfc2047-decode-string from))))
>            (name (car data))
>            (net (car (cdr data))))
>       (if (equal name net) (setq name nil))
>
>
> A version that tries to cope with requires and missing rfc2047:
>
>
> *** bbdb.el   Thu Aug 11 13:09:05 2005
> --- bbdb-patched2.el  Thu Aug 11 22:45:41 2005
> ***************
> *** 58,63 ****
> --- 58,67 ----
>    ;; autoload doesn't work for these
>    (condition-case nil (require 'message)
>      (error (message "Warning: message not found.  Ensure it is in your 
> `load-path'"))); for message-mode-map
> +  ;;  TO FIX: byte-compiler will still complain about rfc2047-decode-string 
> if
> +  ;;  rfc2047 cannot be found.
> +  (condition-case nil (require 'rfc2047)
> +    (error (message "Warning: rfc2047 not found.  RFC2047-decoding of mail 
> headers may not work."))); for rfc2047-decode-string 
>    (require 'sendmail); for mail-mode-map
>    )
>   
> ***************
> *** 110,115 ****
> --- 114,122 ----
>     (or (fboundp 'set-keymap-prompt)
>         (fset 'set-keymap-prompt 'ignore)))
>   
> + (unless (require 'rfc2047 nil t)
> +     (defalias 'rfc2047-decode-string 'identity))
> + 
>   ;; this should really be in bbdb-com
>   ;;;###autoload
>   (defun bbdb-submit-bug-report ()
> ***************
> *** 3126,3132 ****
>   \(assuming that CREATE-P is true\).  "
>     (let* ((data (if (consp from)
>                      from ; if from is a cons, it's pre-parsed (hack hack)
> !                  (mail-extract-address-components from)))
>            (name (car data))
>            (net (car (cdr data))))
>       (if (equal name net) (setq name nil))
> --- 3133,3141 ----
>   \(assuming that CREATE-P is true\).  "
>     (let* ((data (if (consp from)
>                      from ; if from is a cons, it's pre-parsed (hack hack)
> !              ;; BA was here.  This needs rfc2047.el
> !                  (mail-extract-address-components
> !               (rfc2047-decode-string from))))
>            (name (car data))
>            (net (car (cdr data))))
>       (if (equal name net) (setq name nil))
>
>
>
>
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