Alberto Bertogli 74e7c96031 aliases: Drop characters when parsing, and support suffix-specific aliases ...

Today, when a user sets an alias with drop characters and/or suffixes,
those go unused, since we always "clean" addresses before alias
resolution.

This results in unexpected and surprising behaviour, and it's not
properly documented either.

This patch resolves this unexpected behaviour as follows:

- Drop characters are ignored, both at parsing time and at lookup time.
- Lookups are done including the suffixes first, and if that results in
  no matches, they are retried without suffixes.

This results in aliases working more intuitively for the most common use
cases: of users wanting to have different aliases for specific suffixes,
and not having to care for drop characters.

Hooks can be used to get different behaviour if needed, since the first
lookup is done with the address as-is.

Thanks to znerol@ (lo+github@znerol.ch) for reporting this, and the
discussion on how to fix it, in
https://github.com/albertito/chasquid/issues/41.

2023-09-24 09:33:01 +01:00

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