Re: Handling "via" addresses

> * Roland Winkler <[email protected]> [2022-07-06 15:15:39 -0500]:
>
> On Wed, Jul 06 2022, Sam Steingold wrote:
>> Subject: [PATCH] Use `mail-header-parse-address' instead of
>>  `mail-extract-address-components'.
>
> There is also `gnus-extract-address-components' that is supposedly
> faster than `mail-header-parse-address', though less accurate.  Is this
> an issue?  How are these two functions used elsewhere?

please see https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=56422

Lars (who re-wrote gnus and wrote `mail-header-parse-address' writes):

> mail-extract-address-components is a DWIM-ish thing that doesn't have
> much documented behaviour -- it just tries to make things "pretty" by
> applying lots of (mostly misguided) heuristics.  So talking about
> "correct" here isn't er correct.

> If you have an RFC822bis From header, you should use
> `mail-header-parse-address'.  If you have something that's vaguely like
> a mail header and want to split it, use `mail-header-parse-address-lax'.



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