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

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

[Marcin Borkowski]

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?

TIA,

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Marcin Borkowski
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Adam Mickiewicz University

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

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

[Igor Sosa Mayor]

Allan Streib <astreib@indiana.edu> writes:

> 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

thanks! interesting...

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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