Variable: mail-use-rfc822

mail-use-rfc822 is a customizable variable defined in mail-utils.el.gz.

Value

nil

Documentation

If non-nil, use a full, hairy RFC 822 (or later) parser on mail addresses.

Otherwise, (the default) use a smaller, somewhat faster, and often correct parser.

Source Code

;; Defined in /usr/src/emacs/lisp/mail/mail-utils.el.gz
;;; mail-utils.el --- utility functions used both by rmail and rnews  -*- lexical-binding: t -*-

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;; Maintainer: emacs-devel@gnu.org
;; Keywords: mail, news

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;;; Commentary:

;; Utility functions for mail and netnews handling.  These handle fine
;; points of header parsing.

;;; Code:

;;;###autoload
(defcustom mail-use-rfc822 nil
  "If non-nil, use a full, hairy RFC 822 (or later) parser on mail addresses.
Otherwise, (the default) use a smaller, somewhat faster, and
often correct parser."
  :type 'boolean
  :group 'mail)