Bug#965948: mutt: Incorrect handling of whitespace in aliases file

Tue, 14 Dec 2021 14:18:15 -0800 

On Tue, 21 Jul 2020 11:38:18 +0100 Matthew Foulkes <[email protected]> 
wrote:

Package: mutt
Version: 1.14.5-1
Severity: minor
X-Debbugs-Cc: [email protected]

Dear Maintainer,
Before version 1.14.15-1, mutt used to ignore extra whitespace between the end of the long name and the beginning of the email address in the aliases file. Given an aliases file organised into columns 

alias   alice      Alice Aardvark            <[email protected]>
alias   bob        Bob Bee                   <[email protected]>

typing "mutt alice" would have generated an email with

To: Alice Aardvark <[email protected]>
Since the update to 1.14.15-1, all whitespace following the long name is preserved exactly and you get 

To: Alice Aardvark            <[email protected]>
I think this was a consequence of +EXACT_ADDRESS being configured. Since the Debian package now has that turned off, I think this bug should be resolved. 

-Kevin

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