* Michael Elkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-08-16 00:41]: > Sven Guckes wrote: > > * Andre Berger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-08-15 14:44]: > > > The following bad From formats are displayed with > > > "F" flag in my index as if they were from me (andre): > > > > > > From: "Luca Riazzi" <LRIAZZI<removeme-cancellami>@writeme.com> > > > From: "Neil Tisdale" <neil.<discard>[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > From: "lst_cwby" <mailto:l_@m_@st_@n_@__c_@wb_@y@@bt_@nt_@[EMAIL PROTECTED]@m> > > > > > > Can I work around this somehow? > > > > mutt uses $alternates to figure this out. > > what is the value you set? > > Those are > obviously malformed addresses that Mutt shows as being sent by the user. > This is really a bug in the way Mutt handles malformed addresses. If > there is a parse error, Mutt will return NULL for the list of addresses.
indeed - all addresses are invalid. i did not check them.. > Normally this would not be a problem, but because some old > mail clients that people used to use did not write a From: > line in the mbox for saved outgoing messages, Mutt will > assume that the message from you if there is no From: line. > Since Mutt represents no addresses and bad addresses the > same way internally, it can't tell the difference. well, there's a difference between "No From: line" and "From: line contains no valid addresses", right? sound like a simple flag needs to be checked for the existance of a From: line.. is that all? > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Mail-Followup-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] changing over to mutt-dev? Sven
