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

[Allan Streib]

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

> "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?

Have a look at bbdb-snarf.el

Allan