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+From: Jesse Rosenthal <jrosenthal@jhu.edu>\r
+To: notmuch@notmuchmail.org\r
+Subject: [PATCH v2 1/2] lib: Use email address instead of empty real name.\r
+Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2014 10:57:41 -0500\r
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+Currently, if a From-header is of the form:\r
+\r
+ "" <address@example.com>\r
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+the empty string will be treated as a valid real-name, and the entry\r
+in the search results will be empty.\r
+\r
+The new behavior here is that we treat an empty real-name field as if\r
+it were null, so that the email address will be used in the search\r
+results instead.\r
+\r
+Signed-off-by: Jesse Rosenthal <jrosenthal@jhu.edu>\r
+---\r
+ lib/thread.cc | 3 ++-\r
+ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)\r
+\r
+diff --git a/lib/thread.cc b/lib/thread.cc\r
+index 8922403..68b2b94 100644\r
+--- a/lib/thread.cc\r
++++ b/lib/thread.cc\r
+@@ -277,7 +277,8 @@ _thread_add_message (notmuch_thread_t *thread,\r
+ address = internet_address_list_get_address (list, 0);\r
+ if (address) {\r
+ author = internet_address_get_name (address);\r
+- if (author == NULL) {\r
++ // We treat quoted empty names as if they were empty.\r
++ if (author == NULL || author[0]=='\0' ) {\r
+ InternetAddressMailbox *mailbox;\r
+ mailbox = INTERNET_ADDRESS_MAILBOX (address);\r
+ author = internet_address_mailbox_get_addr (mailbox);\r
+-- \r
+2.1.3\r
+\r