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diff --git a/lisp/gnus-registry.el b/lisp/gnus-registry.el
index a770524..62d438f 100644 (file)
--- a/lisp/gnus-registry.el
+++ b/lisp/gnus-registry.el
@@ -369,7 +369,8 @@ See the Info node `(gnus)Fancy Mail Splitting' for more details."
             nnmail-split-fancy-with-parent-ignore-groups
           (list nnmail-split-fancy-with-parent-ignore-groups)))
        references res)
-    (if refstr
+    ;; the references string must be valid and parse to valid references
+    (if (and refstr (gnus-extract-references refstr))
        (progn
          (setq references (nreverse (gnus-extract-references refstr)))
          (mapcar (lambda (x)