Heads Up: Pantomime/GNUMail fixes

[Riccardo Mottola]

Hi All,

Yesterday I dared to change some parsing code in Pantomime, namely the 
code that parses email addresses. E.g. "Jon Doe <jon@doe.com"
First, I tried some fixes with quotes, I was disturbed to see certain 
names quoted and certain not in he GNUMail From column. I think the 
new code is more compact and more robust, it looks fine in the 
hundreds of emails that I tested with.

Then there was a warning about an unsupported format and indeed it 
wasn't, by change one of the first emails I used to test had the 
sender in that address format, apparently quite rare. I implemented a 
simple parser for it too.

So after 10+ year new features! GNUMail now looks better indeed.

I then went a step further - the reason I ask everybody to test stuff 
before I make a new fix release: Currently addresses were stored with 
the personal information already quoted. That means that if a name had 
e.g. a "," in its name, it would appear quoed everywhere, including 
the message view columns. I find that ugly.

I changed so that it gets quoted only when the stringVaue is 
requested. That way headers and especially "replyTo" should work 
as-is, but here testing is required, I might have broken things in an 
unforseen manner.

So if you use Pantomine - the only current app is GNUMail itself I 
think, please update to current SVN version.
LuserNET also uses Pantomime, but it does not appear to use its 
address handling so it is unaffected I suppose, a first test shows it 
works as before (the whole app bit-rotted a bit, the SVN repository of 
gnumail holds also a tweaked version of it). [1]
If there are other apps using Pantomime, please let me know!

Everything looks more polished now though!

Cheers (sent fro GNUMail!),

Riccardo


[1] http://svn.gna.org/viewcvs/gnustep-nonfsf/