On Wed, Jun 02, 2021 at 05:53:25PM +0200, Werner Koch wrote:
On Mon, 31 May 2021 15:08, Kevin J. McCarthy said:Both the classic and GPGME code perform a strtok(" ,.:\"()<>\n") call on the email address and personal name fields and discard parts smaller than 4. So searching for [email protected] will generateI really don't know the origin. I don't have old versions of Mutt or my old mail archives online anymore and thus can't check easily. I am pretty sure it has always been there and I copied it only over to the gpgme code.
Thank you Werner. I think the strtok() makes some sense when searching against the personal field (to allow for missing middle names or initials etc). But I can't think of any reason why this would be desirable for matching against the email address.
Since I've just released 2.1, I think now is a good time to try somewhat risky changes. I'm going to change it to directly add the email address to the hints list.
-- Kevin J. McCarthy GPG Fingerprint: 8975 A9B3 3AA3 7910 385C 5308 ADEF 7684 8031 6BDA
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