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1 ;;; mail-utils.el --- utility functions used both by rmail and rnews
2
3 ;; Copyright (C) 1985 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
4
5 ;; Maintainer: FSF
6 ;; Keywords: mail, news
7
8 ;; This file is part of GNU Emacs.
9
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23
24 ;;; Commentary:
25
26 ;; Utility functions for mail and netnews handling. These handle fine
27 ;; points of header parsing.
28
29 ;;; Code:
30
31 ;;; We require lisp-mode to make sure that lisp-mode-syntax-table has
32 ;;; been initialized.
33 (require 'lisp-mode)
34
35 ;;;###autoload
36 (defvar mail-use-rfc822 nil "\
37 *If non-nil, use a full, hairy RFC822 parser on mail addresses.
38 Otherwise, (the default) use a smaller, somewhat faster, and
39 often correct parser.")
40
41 (defun mail-string-delete (string start end)
42 "Returns a string containing all of STRING except the part
43 from START (inclusive) to END (exclusive)."
44 (if (null end) (substring string 0 start)
45 (concat (substring string 0 start)
46 (substring string end nil))))
47
48 (defun mail-strip-quoted-names (address)
49 "Delete comments and quoted strings in an address list ADDRESS.
50 Also delete leading/trailing whitespace and replace FOO <BAR> with just BAR.
51 Return a modified address list."
52 (if (null address)
53 nil
54 (if mail-use-rfc822
55 (progn (require 'rfc822)
56 (mapconcat 'identity (rfc822-addresses address) ", "))
57 (let (pos)
58 (string-match "\\`[ \t\n]*" address)
59 ;; strip surrounding whitespace
60 (setq address (substring address
61 (match-end 0)
62 (string-match "[ \t\n]*\\'" address
63 (match-end 0))))
64
65 ;; Detect nested comments.
66 (if (string-match "[ \t]*(\\([^)\"\\]\\|\\\\.\\|\\\\\n\\)*(" address)
67 ;; Strip nested comments.
68 (save-excursion
69 (set-buffer (get-buffer-create " *temp*"))
70 (erase-buffer)
71 (insert address)
72 (set-syntax-table lisp-mode-syntax-table)
73 (goto-char 1)
74 (while (search-forward "(" nil t)
75 (forward-char -1)
76 (skip-chars-backward " \t")
77 (delete-region (point)
78 (save-excursion
79 (condition-case ()
80 (forward-sexp 1)
81 (error (goto-char (point-max))))
82 (point))))
83 (setq address (buffer-string))
84 (erase-buffer))
85 ;; Strip non-nested comments an easier way.
86 (while (setq pos (string-match
87 ;; This doesn't hack rfc822 nested comments
88 ;; `(xyzzy (foo) whinge)' properly. Big deal.
89 "[ \t]*(\\([^)\"\\]\\|\\\\.\\|\\\\\n\\)*)"
90 address))
91 (setq address
92 (mail-string-delete address
93 pos (match-end 0)))))
94
95 ;; strip `quoted' names (This is supposed to hack `"Foo Bar" <bar@host>')
96 (setq pos 0)
97 (while (setq pos (string-match
98 "[ \t]*\"\\([^\"\\]\\|\\\\.\\|\\\\\n\\)*\"[ \t\n]*"
99 address pos))
100 ;; If the next thing is "@", we have "foo bar"@host. Leave it.
101 (if (and (> (length address) (match-end 0))
102 (= (aref address (match-end 0)) ?@))
103 (setq pos (match-end 0))
104 (setq address
105 (mail-string-delete address
106 pos (match-end 0)))))
107 ;; Retain only part of address in <> delims, if there is such a thing.
108 (while (setq pos (string-match "\\(,\\|\\`\\)[^,]*<\\([^>,]*>\\)"
109 address))
110 (let ((junk-beg (match-end 1))
111 (junk-end (match-beginning 2))
112 (close (match-end 0)))
113 (setq address (mail-string-delete address (1- close) close))
114 (setq address (mail-string-delete address junk-beg junk-end))))
115 address))))
116
117 (or (and (boundp 'rmail-default-dont-reply-to-names)
118 (not (null rmail-default-dont-reply-to-names)))
119 (setq rmail-default-dont-reply-to-names "info-"))
120
121 ; rmail-dont-reply-to-names is defined in loaddefs
122 (defun rmail-dont-reply-to (userids)
123 "Returns string of mail addresses USERIDS sans any recipients
124 that start with matches for `rmail-dont-reply-to-names'.
125 Usenet paths ending in an element that matches are removed also."
126 (if (null rmail-dont-reply-to-names)
127 (setq rmail-dont-reply-to-names
128 (concat (if rmail-default-dont-reply-to-names
129 (concat rmail-default-dont-reply-to-names "\\|")
130 "")
131 (concat (regexp-quote (user-login-name))
132 "\\>"))))
133 (let ((match (concat "\\(^\\|,\\)[ \t\n]*\\([^,\n]*!\\|\\)\\("
134 rmail-dont-reply-to-names
135 "\\)"))
136 (case-fold-search t)
137 pos epos)
138 (while (setq pos (string-match match userids))
139 (if (> pos 0) (setq pos (1+ pos)))
140 (setq epos
141 (if (string-match "[ \t\n,]+" userids (match-end 0))
142 (match-end 0)
143 (length userids)))
144 (setq userids
145 (mail-string-delete
146 userids pos epos)))
147 ;; get rid of any trailing commas
148 (if (setq pos (string-match "[ ,\t\n]*\\'" userids))
149 (setq userids (substring userids 0 pos)))
150 ;; remove leading spaces. they bother me.
151 (if (string-match "\\s *" userids)
152 (substring userids (match-end 0))
153 userids)))
154 \f
155 ;;;###autoload
156 (defun mail-fetch-field (field-name &optional last all)
157 "Return the value of the header field FIELD-NAME.
158 The buffer is expected to be narrowed to just the headers of the message.
159 If second arg LAST is non-nil, use the last such field if there are several.
160 If third arg ALL is non-nil, concatenate all such fields with commas between."
161 (save-excursion
162 (goto-char (point-min))
163 (let ((case-fold-search t)
164 (name (concat "^" (regexp-quote field-name) "[ \t]*:[ \t]*")))
165 (if all
166 (let ((value ""))
167 (while (re-search-forward name nil t)
168 (let ((opoint (point)))
169 (while (progn (forward-line 1)
170 (looking-at "[ \t]")))
171 ;; Back up over newline, then trailing spaces or tabs
172 (forward-char -1)
173 (while (member (preceding-char) '(? ?\t))
174 (forward-char -1))
175 (setq value (concat value
176 (if (string= value "") "" ", ")
177 (buffer-substring opoint (point))))))
178 (and (not (string= value "")) value))
179 (if (re-search-forward name nil t)
180 (progn
181 (if last (while (re-search-forward name nil t)))
182 (let ((opoint (point)))
183 (while (progn (forward-line 1)
184 (looking-at "[ \t]")))
185 ;; Back up over newline, then trailing spaces or tabs
186 (forward-char -1)
187 (while (member (preceding-char) '(? ?\t))
188 (forward-char -1))
189 (buffer-substring opoint (point)))))))))
190 \f
191 ;; Parse a list of tokens separated by commas.
192 ;; It runs from point to the end of the visible part of the buffer.
193 ;; Whitespace before or after tokens is ignored,
194 ;; but whitespace within tokens is kept.
195 (defun mail-parse-comma-list ()
196 (let (accumulated
197 beg)
198 (skip-chars-forward " ")
199 (while (not (eobp))
200 (setq beg (point))
201 (skip-chars-forward "^,")
202 (skip-chars-backward " ")
203 (setq accumulated
204 (cons (buffer-substring beg (point))
205 accumulated))
206 (skip-chars-forward "^,")
207 (skip-chars-forward ", "))
208 accumulated))
209
210 (defun mail-comma-list-regexp (labels)
211 (let (pos)
212 (setq pos (or (string-match "[^ \t]" labels) 0))
213 ;; Remove leading and trailing whitespace.
214 (setq labels (substring labels pos (string-match "[ \t]*$" labels pos)))
215 ;; Change each comma to \|, and flush surrounding whitespace.
216 (while (setq pos (string-match "[ \t]*,[ \t]*" labels))
217 (setq labels
218 (concat (substring labels 0 pos)
219 "\\|"
220 (substring labels (match-end 0))))))
221 labels)
222 \f
223 (defun mail-rfc822-time-zone (time)
224 (let* ((sec (or (car (current-time-zone time)) 0))
225 (absmin (/ (abs sec) 60)))
226 (format "%c%02d%02d" (if (< sec 0) ?- ?+) (/ absmin 60) (% absmin 60))))
227
228 (defun mail-rfc822-date ()
229 (let* ((time (current-time))
230 (s (current-time-string time)))
231 (string-match "[^ ]+ +\\([^ ]+\\) +\\([^ ]+\\) \\([^ ]+\\) \\([^ ]+\\)" s)
232 (concat (substring s (match-beginning 2) (match-end 2)) " "
233 (substring s (match-beginning 1) (match-end 1)) " "
234 (substring s (match-beginning 4) (match-end 4)) " "
235 (substring s (match-beginning 3) (match-end 3)) " "
236 (mail-rfc822-time-zone time))))
237
238 (provide 'mail-utils)
239
240 ;;; mail-utils.el ends here