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List:       mutt-dev
Subject:    Re: GPG list keys search strings
From:       "Kevin J. McCarthy" <kevin () 8t8 ! us>
Date:       2021-06-13 20:46:23
Message-ID: YMZunycUoRW5A8Pj () afu ! lan
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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 john.doe@example.com will generate
>
>I 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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