Add new functions for lax mail address splitting

* lisp/emacs-lisp/subr-x.el (string-clean-whitespace): Autoload.
* lisp/mail/mail-parse.el (mail-header-parse-addresses-lax)
(mail-header-parse-address-lax): New functions.

1 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/etc/NEWS b/etc/NEWS
index a321ffd81f1..a3a25436289 100644
--- a/etc/NEWS
+++ b/etc/NEWS
@@ -2444,6 +2444,15 @@ images are marked.
 ** Miscellaneous
 
 ---
+*** New function 'mail-header-parse-addresses-lax'.
+This takes a comma-separated string and returns a list of mail/name
+pairs.
+
+---
+*** New function 'mail-header-parse-address-lax'.
+Parse a string as a mail address-like string.
+
+---
 *** 'shell-script-mode' now supports 'outline-minor-mode'.
 The outline headings have lines that start with "###".