diff -Pur mutt-1.3.23-base/parse.c mutt-1.3.23/parse.c
--- mutt-1.3.23-base/parse.c	Sun Apr 29 17:00:19 2001
+++ mutt-1.3.23/parse.c	Fri Oct 12 16:57:10 2001
@@ -862,14 +862,21 @@
   return (mutt_mktime (&tm, 0) + tz_offset);
 }
 
-/* extract the first substring that looks like a message-id */
+/* extract the first substring that looks like a message-id 
+   something between angle brackets that follows " from "
+   is assumed to be an email address
+ */
 static char *extract_message_id (const char *s)
 {
-  const char *p;
+  const char *p, *f;
   char *r;
   size_t l;
 
+  f = strstr (s, " from ");
   if ((s = strchr (s, '<')) == NULL || (p = strchr (s, '>')) == NULL)
+    return (NULL);
+  if (f != NULL && f < s &&
+      ((s = strchr (p, '<')) == NULL || (p = strchr (s, '>')) == NULL))
     return (NULL);
   l = (size_t)(p - s) + 1;
   r = safe_malloc (l + 1);