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Olivier Galibert <Olivier.Galibert@mines.u-nancy.fr> writes:

> May I try an (untested) educated guess ?

Hunks 1 and 3 match my working patch which appears to work, so it
seems you made a very good guess. :-)

> @@ -984,7 +984,7 @@
>    "Extract the author's email terminus from email address FROM.
>  Match addresses of the style ``[stuff]![stuff]...!name[stuff].''"
>    (let ((eos (length from))
> -       (mstart (string-match "![-a-zA-Z0-9_.]+\\([^-!a-zA-Z0-9_.]\\|$\\)"
> +       (mstart (string-match "![-+a-zA-Z0-9_.]+\\([^-+!a-zA-Z0-9_.]\\|$\\)"
>                               from 0))
>         (mend (match-end 0)))
>      (and mstart

I don't know how good this is.  It's been many years since I've had to 
contend with UUCP mail.  Left to my druthers I'd drop support entirely 
for bang email addresses.  It's been many years since it has become
possible to use standard domain addresses with UUCP.
-- 
steve@calag.com baur
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