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28.0.91; mail-header-parse-addresses-lax is not lax

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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Benjamin Orthen <benjamin <at> orthen.net>
Cc: 54523 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#54523: 28.0.91; mail-header-parse-addresses-lax is not lax
Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2022 20:13:46 +0100

Benjamin Orthen <benjamin <at> orthen.net> writes:

> mail-header-parse-addresses-lax runs into an "Unbalanced parentheses"
> error when trying to parse mail/name pairs which do not conform to
> the expected standard. This is because the function calls
> mail-header-parse-address on each mail/name pair which fails for
> non-conforming pairs.
>
> See for example:
> (mail-header-parse-addresses-lax
> "Bob Weiner <rsw <at> gnu.org>, Mats Lidell <matsl <at> gnu.org")
>
> A simple fix could be like this:

Yup.  I've now done something similar in Emacs 29.

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