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Re: Extracting just the email address from "From:"

1997-05-30 08:14:00
On Thu, 29 May 1997, era eriksson wrote:

On Wed, 28 May 1997 21:21:19 +0000 (GMT),
"Matthew G. Saroff" <msaroff(_at_)pca(_dot_)net> wrote:
 >    My problem is as follows:  If I get a message from the following 
 > person:
 > 
 > harui(_at_)bartleblat(_dot_)com (Devourer of worlds, if your world is a 
Twinkie),
 > 
 > I would like to do all my evaluation and comparison on 
 > harui(_at_)bartleblat(_dot_)com, and dump the (Devourer of worlds, if your 
world is 
 > a Twinkie) part.
 >    Is there a way for me to do this?

The canonical way to do that is that ole

    formail -rtzxTo:
Hi,
        I think that I may have missed something.  Shouldn't that be 
        formail -rtzxFrom: instead of formail -rtzxTo:?
        Itt could be that I am missing one of the finer points (my 
nature, I'm a mechanical engineer) of formail.

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