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Emacs 18.57 and 55

Some folks like saying

george@hyper.lap.upenn.edu (George "Sir Lleb" Zipperlen)
                                   ^        ^
in their e-mail From: lines.

(mail-strip-quoted-names "x@y.z (a b c)")
"x@y.z"
good

(mail-strip-quoted-names "x@y.z (a \"b\" c)")
"x@y.z (ac)"
bad, as this is the result that gets fed to /bin/sh when it's time to
send e-mail, and only e-mail address can be fed to /bin/sh, no "(" stuff.
(I use w.j.carpenter@att.com's cool feedmail.el instead of nasty old
fakemail.c, by the way.)
This I'd like to see fixed in 18.58.  [This is the only thing in this
message I think should be fixed.]

most other quotes don't seem to barf it:
(mail-strip-quoted-names "x@y.z (a `b' c)")
"x@y.z"
good.

"OK, Jacobson, why dont you..."
(setq mail-use-rfc822 t)
t

(mail-strip-quoted-names "x@y.z (a \"b\" c)")
"x@y.z"
good

but then
(mail-strip-quoted-names "internal:company:address (c c)")

"(Unparsable address -- End of addresses in middle of :...; group:
	  \"internal:\\(Unparsable address -- A group name may not
appear here:
	  \"company:_^_address \\\\\\(c c\\\\\\)\"\\)_^_\")"

but that's cool, I never said that was valid 822 format.

(setq mail-use-rfc822 nil)
nil
(mail-strip-quoted-names "internal:company:address (c c)")
"internal:company:address"
phew, that's better

[gee, all this typing and i didn't even try to fix it myself, just
complain...]