I'm using

go version devel +31ad583 2016-08-10 19:44:08 +0000 linux/amd64

I tried to parse all email adresses from the git log output of https://github.com/golang/go.

mail.ParseAddress choked on five adresses. Two times it was legitimate; but three of them failed to parse just because they contain round parentheses in the name part.

Here is a minimal example:

package main

import (
    "fmt"
    "log"
    "net/mail"
)

func main() {
    s := "Hyang-Ah (Hana) Kim <hyangah@gmail.com>"
    a, err := mail.ParseAddress(s)
    if err != nil {
        log.Fatal(err)
    }
    fmt.Println(a)
}

I expected to see

"Hyang-Ah (Hana) Kim" <hyangah@gmail.com>

but instead i see

2016/08/14 21:28:50 mail: no angle-addr

Even if name aren’t allowed to contain round parentheses, the error message is confusing, because there clearly are square/angle bracket with an email adress between.