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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
commit03a65a2e6f4c1e4995f956c1da9c987d1014b683 (patch)
tree20973131cc232ba5b96c488d400a3547bcf6abfc /lisp/mail/rmail.el
parent1a3d0f63e1fb259e0baaa96e775939ebe1453419 (diff)
downloademacs-03a65a2e6f4c1e4995f956c1da9c987d1014b683.tar.gz
(rmail-unix-mail-delimiter): Allow space or tab as
first character in mailbox part of `From ' line.
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diff --git a/lisp/mail/rmail.el b/lisp/mail/rmail.el
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@@ -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