<p>Given the email address: "Jim" &lt;jim@example.com&gt;</p>

<p>If I try to pass this to MailAddress I get the exception:</p>

<blockquote>
  <p>The specified string is not in the form required for an e-mail address.</p>
</blockquote>

<p>How do I parse this address into a display name (Jim) and email address (jim@example.com) in C#?</p>

<p>EDIT:  I'm looking for C# code to parse it.</p>

<p>EDIT2:  I found that the exception was being thrown by MailAddress because I had a space at the start of the email address string.  </p>

Try:
```
```
"Jimbo <jim@example.com>"
```
```