> As an aside, does anyone here have a python routine for properly > splitting up a From: header, accounting for all the styles of seperating > the name from address and the various alternate locals? I'm not sure what you mean by "the various alternate locals" but the standard rfc822 module (AddressList class) seems to do what you need. See: http://www.python.org/doc/current/lib/module-rfc822.html Or is it somehow deficient? -- Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho http://www.iki.fi/gaia/