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From: Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: How to extract the email address from the From: header?
Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2014 13:37:31 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87vbn9yzjo.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87bnp15jbm.fsf@wmi.amu.edu.pl

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





      parent reply	other threads:[~2014-10-24 20:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-10-24 20:00 How to extract the email address from the From: header? Marcin Borkowski
2014-10-24 20:05 ` Allan Streib
2014-10-24 20:12   ` Igor Sosa Mayor
2014-10-24 20:37 ` Eric Abrahamsen [this message]

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