diff --git a/openerp/tools/misc.py b/openerp/tools/misc.py
index e90fadf0492..7f2dade30d8 100644
--- a/openerp/tools/misc.py
+++ b/openerp/tools/misc.py
@@ -1113,6 +1113,12 @@ class unquote(str):
     def __repr__(self):
         return self
 
+def emails_split(text):
+    """Return a list of the email addresses found in ``text``"""
+    if not text: return []
+    return re.findall(r'([^ ,<@]+@[^> ,]+)', text)
+
+
 class UnquoteEvalContext(defaultdict):
     """Defaultdict-based evaluation context that returns 
        an ``unquote`` string for any missing name used during