On July 24, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
> What you're losing here is that rfc822.el is pretty much the
> definitive emacs implementation of correct address parsing, but it's
> mechanical in that it returns to you the exact "name" text from the
> input email address. On the other hand, Robert Fenk and o
On July 24, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
>
> where do you call this?
It's called in the patch he appended to his original post.
> It'd be nice if mail-extract-address-components had a hook somewhere or
> some regexp check for parts of the email addr to discard. Maybe there even
> is a possibility, bu
> "Sam" == Sam Steingold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Sam>
Sam> Sometimes I get a message from a mailing list with a From address like
Sam> this:
Sam> "John Doe via RT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>"
Sam>
Sam> I added a variable `bbdb-canonicalize-name-hook', similar to
On July 23, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
>
> I think `bbdb-canonicalize-name-hook' fits well with
> `bbdb-canonicalize-net-hook', so please consider my patch.
That was the consideration. The whole reason behind the
bbdb-extract-address-components stuff is to provide a useful means of
splitting an emai
> * In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> * On the subject of "Re: name canonicalization"
> * Sent on Wed, 23 Jul 2003 22:27:22 +0100
> * Honorable Ronan Waide <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> On July 23, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
> >
> > bbdb-extrac
On July 23, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
>
> bbdb-extract-address-component-ignore-regexp and friends are in
> bbdb-snarf.el which is not relevant to this issue.
> I am having the problem with bbdb `noticing' records.
Ah, but bbdb-extract-address-component* and friends are called by the
noticing code
> * In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> * On the subject of "Re: name canonicalization"
> * Sent on Wed, 23 Jul 2003 17:19:11 +0100
> * Honorable Ronan Waide <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> On July 23, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
> > Sometimes I get a messag
On July 23, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
> Sometimes I get a message from a mailing list with a From address like
> this:
> "John Doe via RT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>"
> Since I have a record for <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, BBDB will
> offer me to make "John Doe via" the name of this record, which is
> cert
Sometimes I get a message from a mailing list with a From address like
this:
"John Doe via RT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>"
Since I have a record for <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, BBDB will
offer me to make "John Doe via" the name of this record, which is
certainly not what I want.
I added a variable `bbdb
