Re: summary displays recipient instead of sender

[bxf4]

Reiner Steib <reinersteib+from-uce@imap.cc> writes:

> On Mon, Dec 05 2005, bxf4@u.washington.edu wrote:
>
>> I've never tinkered with gnus-ignored-from-addresses and right now it
>> is set to "".  
>
> Please show us the output of `C-h v user-mail-address RET'.
> I'd guess it is "" too.

Thank you for your response again.  Here's that output:

user-mail-address is a variable defined in `startup'.
Its value is 
"bxf4@u.washington.edu"

> AFAICS, this problem is already fixed in current CVS:
>
> ,----
> | 2005-10-23  Chong Yidong  <cyd@stupidchicken.com>
> | 
> |     * gnus-sum.el (gnus-ignored-from-addresses): Handle case where
> |     user-mail-name is an empty string.
> `----
>
> Your version doesn't have this fix:
>
> | User-Agent: Gnus/5.110003 (No Gnus v0.3) Emacs/22.0.50 (darwin)
>
> Setting `gnus-ignored-from-addresses' to nil or "bxf4@" should do the
> trick.

I'll change this above and see what happens.

>> I know sed and awk regexps, but not sure where emacs regexps differ.
>> I don't think "" should match everything, right?  ".*" would match
>> everything, wouldn't it?
>
> "" _does_ match _every_ string in Emacs.

Well, that does matter...

Thank you again.