Best way to parse string of email addresses

Question

So i am working with some email header data, and for the to:, from:, cc:, and bcc: fields the email address(es) can be expressed in a number of different ways:

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Answer 1

Here's what I came up with. It assumes that a valid email address must have one and only one '@' sign in it:

    public List ParseAddresses(string field)
    {
        var tokens = field.Split(',');
        var addresses = new List();

        var tokenBuffer = new List();

        foreach (var token in tokens)
        {
            tokenBuffer.Add(token);

            if (token.IndexOf("@", StringComparison.Ordinal) > -1)
            {
                addresses.Add( string.Join( ",", tokenBuffer));
                tokenBuffer.Clear();
            }
        }

        return addresses.Select(t => new MailAddress(t)).ToList();
    }