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Jamie,
Len> By empty, do you mean the fields were nil or they were "" ?

Jamie> They were nil.

Then I guess you aren't experiencing my problem; (sigh),
since that involves "" and "???" entries.
Not too surprising, since my problem is pretty slippery.

(Actually, even nil entries mess up my summary without the 
new versions of  'vm-grok-From_-date  and 'vm-grok-From_-author
that Kyle posted.)


Len> I have managed to spend a little time with this and looked at the
Len> regexps in the function 'vm-su-do-date .

Thanks very much for your alternative code, as it looks like useful
"defensive driving".  But I regretted writing this as soon as I posted it.
It really is a red herring, since each date in my file is matched by one
of the two regexps in the released function.

I guess I am just getting so frustrated with my sick outbox summary that
I got a little sloppy in what to post.  Sorry for the wildgoose chase.

> I don't think that can explain the problem, because it would mean you could
> *never* generate a correct summary, when, as I recall, you're getting correct
> summaries in your inbox but not in other folders (right?)

Right.

> But, the date parsers are pretty limited w.r.t. what's being generated out
> there.  Last time I checked, Kyle's position was that he didn't want to handle
> lots of funky date formats because he'd rather give people incentive to beat
> on their vendors and get them to correctly follow the standard.  My position
> remains that life is too short for that, and I want VM to display dates
> properly.

I agree that life is too short.
(This reminds me of Kyle's similar position regarding the auto-save
error, which I very much hope he can be talked out of.)

So thanks for trying, but I think there is a more basic problem with
the "stuffing" facility and perhaps even your nil-filled header is
part of that problem.

Still frustrated,

- Len Weisberg - HP Corp Computing & Services - weisberg@corp.HP.COM