Re: Correcting bad From formats - alternates

2002-08-15 Thread Sven Guckes 

* Andre Berger [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2002-08-15 14:44]:
 The following bad From formats are displayed with
 F flag in my index as if they were from me (andre):

 From: Luca Riazzi LRIAZZIremoveme-cancellami@writeme.com
 From: Neil Tisdale neil.discard[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 From: lst_cwby mailto:l_@m_@st_@n_@__c_@wb_@y@@bt_@nt_@[EMAIL PROTECTED]@m

 Can I work around this somehow?

mutt uses $alternates to figure this out.
what is the value you set?
check with set ?alternates
or with :set alttab=tab.

Sven

Re: Correcting bad From formats - alternates

2002-08-15 Thread Michael Elkins 

Sven Guckes wrote:
 * Andre Berger [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2002-08-15 14:44]:
  The following bad From formats are displayed with
  F flag in my index as if they were from me (andre):
 
  From: Luca Riazzi LRIAZZIremoveme-cancellami@writeme.com
  From: Neil Tisdale neil.discard[EMAIL PROTECTED]
  From: lst_cwby mailto:l_@m_@st_@n_@__c_@wb_@y@@bt_@nt_@[EMAIL PROTECTED]@m
 
  Can I work around this somehow?
 
 mutt uses $alternates to figure this out.
 what is the value you set?
 check with set ?alternates
 or with :set alttab=tab.

That has nothing to do with what he was asking about.  Those are
obviously malformed addresses that Mutt shows as being sent by the user.
This is really a bug in the way Mutt handles malformed addresses.  If
there is a parse error, Mutt will return NULL for the list of addresses.
Normally this would not be a problem, but because some old mail clients
that people used to use did not write a From: line in the mbox for saved
outgoing messages, Mutt will assume that the message from you if there
is no From: line.  Since Mutt represents no addresses and bad addresses
the same way internally, it can't tell the difference.

Re: Correcting bad From formats - alternates

2002-08-15 Thread Sven Guckes 

* Michael Elkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2002-08-16 00:41]:
 Sven Guckes wrote:
  * Andre Berger [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2002-08-15 14:44]:
   The following bad From formats are displayed with
   F flag in my index as if they were from me (andre):
  
   From: Luca Riazzi LRIAZZIremoveme-cancellami@writeme.com
   From: Neil Tisdale neil.discard[EMAIL PROTECTED]
   From: lst_cwby mailto:l_@m_@st_@n_@__c_@wb_@y@@bt_@nt_@[EMAIL PROTECTED]@m
  
   Can I work around this somehow?
  
  mutt uses $alternates to figure this out.
  what is the value you set?

 Those are
 obviously malformed addresses that Mutt shows as being sent by the user.
 This is really a bug in the way Mutt handles malformed addresses.  If
 there is a parse error, Mutt will return NULL for the list of addresses.

indeed - all addresses are invalid.  i did not check them..

 Normally this would not be a problem, but because some old
 mail clients that people used to use did not write a From:
 line in the mbox for saved outgoing messages, Mutt will
 assume that the message from you if there is no From: line.
 Since Mutt represents no addresses and bad addresses the
 same way internally, it can't tell the difference.

well, there's a difference between No From: line
and From: line contains no valid addresses, right?
sound like a simple flag needs to be checked
for the existance of a From: line.. is that all?

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changing over to mutt-dev?

Sven