diff --git a/openerp/tools/misc.py b/openerp/tools/misc.py
index 7f2dade30d8..8ca90e32f07 100644
--- a/openerp/tools/misc.py
+++ b/openerp/tools/misc.py
@@ -1113,7 +1113,7 @@ class unquote(str):
     def __repr__(self):
         return self
 
-def emails_split(text):
+def email_split(text):
     """Return a list of the email addresses found in ``text``"""
     if not text: return []
     return re.findall(r'([^ ,<@]+@[^> ,]+)', text)