email_body = """From [email protected]  Sun Mar 15 01:04:01 2009
Return-Path: <[email protected]>
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Date: Sun, 15 Mar 2009 01:04:00 +0000
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
Subject: Test
From: Me <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
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"""

import email
import re

rx = re.compile(r'(?P<name>.*)<(?P<email>.*)>')

e = email.message_from_string(email_body)
matches = rx.match(e.get('from'))
from_addr = matches.group('email')