Re: Bug in mail-extract-address-components (mail-extr.el)?

[Jesper Harder]

Reiner Steib <4uce.02.r.steib@gmx.net> writes:

> Recently I noticed, that the function fails for the following From:
> line (which seem to be correct according to RFC-822):
>
> | From: "Harald H.-J. Bongartz" <bongie@gmx.net>
>
> Instead of "Harald H.-J. Bongartz" I get "Harald H.":
>
> Is this a bug in `mail-extract-address-components' or should I use a
> different function to get the full name?

In this particular case `gnus-extract-address-components' works better:

(gnus-extract-address-components "\"Harald H.-J. Bongartz\" <bongie@gmx.net>")
==> ("Harald H.-J. Bongartz" "bongie@gmx.net")

But usually `mail-extract-address-components' is more reliable (but also
really complicated).