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authorPaul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>1996-08-03 02:53:02 +0000
committerPaul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>1996-08-03 02:53:02 +0000
commit4c4a44f32eac7add0c07863510ec85d85de7b945 (patch)
tree2a6fd7e4e6b170a44291ff4fa9ba3105f93980c5
parentf5792262456f1ea5eddf6697dd9d014cbca19563 (diff)
downloademacs-4c4a44f32eac7add0c07863510ec85d85de7b945.tar.gz
(rmail-unix-mail-delimiter): Allow space or tab as
first character in mailbox part of `From ' line.
-rw-r--r--lisp/mail/rmail.el7
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/lisp/mail/rmail.el b/lisp/mail/rmail.el
index 3663bdf29d5..416734000e3 100644
--- a/lisp/mail/rmail.el
+++ b/lisp/mail/rmail.el
@@ -232,10 +232,15 @@ Called with region narrowed to the message, including headers.")
;; From: Joe User
;; <joe@y.z>
;; can yield `From Joe User Fri Mar 22 08:11:15 1996'.
+ ;; The mailbox can be removed or be replaced by white space, e.g.
+ ;; From: "Joe User"{space}{tab}
+ ;; <joe@y.z>
+ ;; can yield `From {space}{tab} Fri Mar 22 08:11:15 1996',
+ ;; where {space} and {tab} represent the Ascii space and tab characters.
;; We want to match the results of any of these manglings.
;; The following regexp rejects names whose first characters are
;; obviously bogus, but after that anything goes.
- "\\([^\0-\r \^?].*\\)? "
+ "\\([^\0-\b\n-\r\^?].*\\)? "
;; The time the message was sent.
"\\([^\0-\r \^?]+\\) +" ; day of the week