Re[2]: changing ' dot ' and ' at ' to '.' and '@'

Alan G Isaac <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.mail.mahogany.user
Organization American University
Message-ID <[email protected]>
> On Fri, 29 Apr 2005 17:45:12 -0400 (Eastern Daylight Time) Alan G Isaac <[email protected]> wrote: 

>> Increasingly I find myself copying and editing email 
>> addresses that contain ' dot ' and ' at ' as spam 
>> fighting strategies.  Could Mahogany recognize and 
>> transform these (ignoring case)? 


On Sun, 15 May 2005 Vadim Zeitlin apparently wrote: 
> what about adding a Python hook which would be executed to 
> normalize every email address entered into composer?  E.g. 
> to do the above you'd simply have to define a function in 
> Minit.py like this: 

> 	def M_address_hook(addr): 
> 		return addr.replace(' at ','@').replace(' dot ','.') 


As long as this would not interfere with the current 
wonderful expansion handling (including the cc: etc),
I would love to try it.  It sounds very useful.

Cheers,
Alan






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