>> From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) On the other hand, I just realized that this is a non-standard Emacs message mode parens style address described at https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Mail-Headers.html . guile-email aims to support these non-standard addresses. So, I think we can relax the requirement that email headers be strictly ASCII. I'll push a fix and let you know. Thanks, Arun.