[Emacs-bug-tracker] bug#5692: marked as done (rfc822-addresses returns a string on occasion)

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has caused the Emacs bug report #5692,
regarding rfc822-addresses returns a string on occasion
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> Sun, 07 Mar 2010 15:24:14 +0000
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> A change made to rfc822.el in Emacs 23.1 seems to have introduced a
> bug.  As the following calls illustrate, the function rfc822-addresses
> normally returns a list of strings, but in the last case it is
> returning a string.  This problem was not present in 22.3.
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> (rfc822-addresses "address@hidden")
> ("address@hidden")
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> (rfc822-addresses "foo:@bar")
> ("(Unparsable address -- Gubbish in middle of :...; group: 
> \"foo:address@hidden")")
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> (rfc822-addresses "foo:;@bar")
> "(Unparsable address -- Strange character \\@ found: \"@_^_bar\")"
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> More generally, it is not clear to me why rfc822-addresses is
> returning strings instead of throwing errors when it finds bad address
> strings.  From the code in VM, it appears that it was originally
> expected to throw errors.  But that has changed sometime in the course
> of revisions.
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> Cheers,
> Uday
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> Uday S Reddy <address@hidden> writes:
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> > (rfc822-addresses "foo:;@bar")
> > "(Unparsable address -- Strange character \\@ found: \"@_^_bar\")"
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> Thanks, I've checked in a fix.
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> Andreas.
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