GNU bug report logs - #32609
26.1; mail-strip-quoted-names:205

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From: Noam Postavsky <npostavs <at> gmail.com>
To: 32609 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Cc: "Dr. Johannes Brügmann" <dr.johannes.bruegmann <at> gmail.com>
Subject: bug#32609: 26.1; mail-strip-quoted-names:205
Date: Sun, 02 Sep 2018 14:07:51 -0400

tags 32609 + unreproducible
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> From: Dr. Johannes Brügmann <dr.johannes.bruegmann <at> gmail.com>

>>> I   tried  to   reply  to   an  email   by  pressing   r,  R,   and  M-x
>>> gnus-article-reply-with-original.   None  of  them  worked.   Minibuffer
>>> displayed  "Mark  Set" but  nothing  happened.  I enabled  Debugging  on
>>> C-g. The *Backtrace*-buffer showed
>>>      string-match("\\`[ \t\n]*" "")
>>>      mail-strip-quoted-names("")
>>>      mail-dont-reply-to("foo <at> bar.com")
>>
>> If I evaluate (mail-dont-reply-to "foo <at> bar.com") it doesn't hang.

> The  mail address  i  wanted  to reply  to  didn't  contain any  special
> characters.  Neither did  the call  to mail-dont-reply-to.  I understand
> that special characters could cause such a behaviour.
>
> As part of following your question, I've put the original file back into
> its place, and  then i recompiled using  byte-compile-file and restarted
> emacs.   Now the  symtom is  no  longer reproducible.  Neither with  the
> originating email, nor with any others that i tested.

I think that means that it's not actually getting stuck in
mail-dont-reply-to, there is some wider loop and you just happened to
stop there.  Next this happens, try to continue a bit and see if you can
find where it loops back again.

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