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23.0.60; rfc822-bad-address: wrong-type-argument error

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From: Chong Yidong <cyd <at> stupidchicken.com>
To: Stephen Berman <stephen.berman <at> gmx.net>
Cc: 453 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#453: 23.0.60; rfc822-bad-address: wrong-type-argument error
Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2008 10:38:24 -0400

Stephen Berman <stephen.berman <at> gmx.net> writes:

> 1. bbdb-rfc822-addresses is trying to parse this header:
>    (""Groß, Werner"") <W.F.Gross <at> t-online.de>
>    which presumably violates RFC822.
> 2. bbdb-rfc822-addresses calls rfc822-addresses, which turns the header
>    into this string:
>    (""Groß
>    and, after let-binding but before setq-ing rfc822-address-start,
> 3. calls rfc822-nuke-whitespace, which further truncates the header to:
>    (
>    and then calls
> 4. rfc822-bad-address, which tries to call narrow-to-region with
>    rfc822-address-start, which is still nil, as the beginning of the
>    region: BZZT!

Now I understand.  could you send a new patch?  Thanks.

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