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> Can anybody point me to some freely available code, preferably in C,
> for parsing RFC822 headers - specifically email addresses as would
> appear in a To: header?  The completer the better.

Yes.

Look in any comp.sources.misc archives and you'll find one written
in YACC.  (posted by me many many moons ago while I was still a
junior level E-Mail hacker known to the world as `david@ms.uky.edu').

That version has BUGS ('twas before I learned that not all the
world was a Vax ;-().

A later version is in the FACES distribution.  (It was a pleasant surprise
pulling that code over and finding that YACC grammer in there...)  That
version has most/all the necessary patching to get it working right.
I don't recall where to get FACES at, but shouting at Archie would
be a good start ;-).

There's also an RFC822 parser in the IMAP distribution available from
ftp.cac.washington.edu.  Dunno how seperable it is, though.


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