* Jacob Rus <jrus at hcs.harvard.edu> [2006-11-14 14:12]: >[RFC 2822]: http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2822 Yeah, email addresses are pretty free-form. Trying to write an exact regex is pointless. How about: ^From: .*(?=\S+@(?=[\w-]+\.)+\w+) Good enough?