Re: How to extract the email address from the From: header?

[Eric Abrahamsen]

Marcin Borkowski <mbork@wmi.amu.edu.pl> writes:

> Hi list,
>
> "From" headers (or "To" ones, for that matter) are sometimes plain email
> addresses and sometimes strings of the form "Real Name
> <email@add.ress>".  I could write a function (or maybe even a regex) to
> extract the email part in the latter case, but Emacs being Emacs, I'm
> pretty sure something like that already exists.  Am I right?

Check `gnus-extract-address-components', which claims to be a
simpler/faster version of `mail-extract-address-components', which also
see.

Eric