public static final Pattern emailPattern = Pattern .compile("^[\\w-\\+]+(\\.[\\w]+)*@[\\w-]+(\\.[\\w]+)*(\\.[a-z]{2,})$"); public static final Pattern searchForMailInStringPattern = Pattern .compile("[a-zA-Z0-9\\-\\.]+\\@[a-zA-Z0-9\\-\\.]+\\.[a-zA-Z]{2,5}"); public static final List getEMailAddressesInString(String s) { List mails = new ArrayList(); for (Matcher m = searchForMailInStringPattern.matcher(s); m.find();) { String tmp = m.group(); if (tmp.endsWith(".png")) continue; if (emailPattern.matcher(tmp).matches()) mails.add(tmp); } return mails; }