diff --git a/Documentation/git-send-email.txt b/Documentation/git-send-email.txt
index 7ae467ba415..f14705ee04e 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-send-email.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-send-email.txt
@@ -49,17 +49,17 @@ Composing
 	of 'sendemail.annotate'. See the CONFIGURATION section for
 	'sendemail.multiEdit'.
 
---bcc=<address>::
+--bcc=<address>,...::
 	Specify a "Bcc:" value for each email. Default is the value of
 	'sendemail.bcc'.
 +
-The --bcc option must be repeated for each user you want on the bcc list.
+This option may be specified multiple times.
 
---cc=<address>::
+--cc=<address>,...::
 	Specify a starting "Cc:" value for each email.
 	Default is the value of 'sendemail.cc'.
 +
-The --cc option must be repeated for each user you want on the cc list.
+This option may be specified multiple times.
 
 --compose::
 	Invoke a text editor (see GIT_EDITOR in linkgit:git-var[1])
@@ -110,13 +110,13 @@ is not set, this will be prompted for.
 	Only necessary if --compose is also set.  If --compose
 	is not set, this will be prompted for.
 
---to=<address>::
+--to=<address>,...::
 	Specify the primary recipient of the emails generated. Generally, this
 	will be the upstream maintainer of the project involved. Default is the
 	value of the 'sendemail.to' configuration value; if that is unspecified,
 	and --to-cmd is not specified, this will be prompted for.
 +
-The --to option must be repeated for each user you want on the to list.
+This option may be specified multiple times.
 
 --8bit-encoding=<encoding>::
 	When encountering a non-ASCII message or subject that does not
diff --git a/git-send-email.perl b/git-send-email.perl
index ae9f8698c5a..b660cc23822 100755
--- a/git-send-email.perl
+++ b/git-send-email.perl
@@ -460,25 +460,11 @@ my ($repoauthor, $repocommitter);
 ($repoauthor) = Git::ident_person(@repo, 'author');
 ($repocommitter) = Git::ident_person(@repo, 'committer');
 
-# Verify the user input
-
-foreach my $entry (@initial_to) {
-	die "Comma in --to entry: $entry'\n" unless $entry !~ m/,/;
-}
-
-foreach my $entry (@initial_cc) {
-	die "Comma in --cc entry: $entry'\n" unless $entry !~ m/,/;
-}
-
-foreach my $entry (@bcclist) {
-	die "Comma in --bcclist entry: $entry'\n" unless $entry !~ m/,/;
-}
-
 sub parse_address_line {
 	if ($have_mail_address) {
 		return map { $_->format } Mail::Address->parse($_[0]);
 	} else {
-		return split_addrs($_[0]);
+		return Git::parse_mailboxes($_[0]);
 	}
 }
 
@@ -561,8 +547,6 @@ if (@alias_files and $aliasfiletype and defined $parse_alias{$aliasfiletype}) {
 	}
 }
 
-($sender) = expand_aliases($sender) if defined $sender;
-
 # is_format_patch_arg($f) returns 0 if $f names a patch, or 1 if
 # $f is a revision list specification to be passed to format-patch.
 sub is_format_patch_arg {
@@ -807,7 +791,10 @@ if (!$force) {
 	}
 }
 
-if (!defined $sender) {
+if (defined $sender) {
+	$sender =~ s/^\s+|\s+$//g;
+	($sender) = expand_aliases($sender);
+} else {
 	$sender = $repoauthor || $repocommitter || '';
 }
 
@@ -839,12 +826,9 @@ sub expand_one_alias {
 	return $aliases{$alias} ? expand_aliases(@{$aliases{$alias}}) : $alias;
 }
 
-@initial_to = expand_aliases(@initial_to);
-@initial_to = validate_address_list(sanitize_address_list(@initial_to));
-@initial_cc = expand_aliases(@initial_cc);
-@initial_cc = validate_address_list(sanitize_address_list(@initial_cc));
-@bcclist = expand_aliases(@bcclist);
-@bcclist = validate_address_list(sanitize_address_list(@bcclist));
+@initial_to = process_address_list(@initial_to);
+@initial_cc = process_address_list(@initial_cc);
+@bcclist = process_address_list(@bcclist);
 
 if ($thread && !defined $initial_reply_to && $prompting) {
 	$initial_reply_to = ask(
@@ -1037,15 +1021,17 @@ sub sanitize_address {
 		return $recipient;
 	}
 
+	# remove non-escaped quotes
+	$recipient_name =~ s/(^|[^\\])"/$1/g;
+
 	# rfc2047 is needed if a non-ascii char is included
 	if ($recipient_name =~ /[^[:ascii:]]/) {
-		$recipient_name =~ s/^"(.*)"$/$1/;
 		$recipient_name = quote_rfc2047($recipient_name);
 	}
 
 	# double quotes are needed if specials or CTLs are included
 	elsif ($recipient_name =~ /[][()<>@,;:\\".\000-\037\177]/) {
-		$recipient_name =~ s/(["\\\r])/\\$1/g;
+		$recipient_name =~ s/([\\\r])/\\$1/g;
 		$recipient_name = qq["$recipient_name"];
 	}
 
@@ -1057,6 +1043,14 @@ sub sanitize_address_list {
 	return (map { sanitize_address($_) } @_);
 }
 
+sub process_address_list {
+	my @addr_list = map { parse_address_line($_) } @_;
+	@addr_list = expand_aliases(@addr_list);
+	@addr_list = sanitize_address_list(@addr_list);
+	@addr_list = validate_address_list(@addr_list);
+	return @addr_list;
+}
+
 # Returns the local Fully Qualified Domain Name (FQDN) if available.
 #
 # Tightly configured MTAa require that a caller sends a real DNS
@@ -1566,8 +1560,8 @@ foreach my $t (@files) {
 		($confirm =~ /^(?:auto|compose)$/ && $compose && $message_num == 1));
 	$needs_confirm = "inform" if ($needs_confirm && $confirm_unconfigured && @cc);
 
-	@to = validate_address_list(sanitize_address_list(@to));
-	@cc = validate_address_list(sanitize_address_list(@cc));
+	@to = process_address_list(@to);
+	@cc = process_address_list(@cc);
 
 	@to = (@initial_to, @to);
 	@cc = (@initial_cc, @cc);
diff --git a/perl/Git.pm b/perl/Git.pm
index 9026a7bb980..19ef081103a 100644
--- a/perl/Git.pm
+++ b/perl/Git.pm
@@ -864,6 +864,73 @@ sub ident_person {
 	return "$ident[0] <$ident[1]>";
 }
 
+=item parse_mailboxes
+
+Return an array of mailboxes extracted from a string.
+
+=cut
+
+sub parse_mailboxes {
+	my $re_comment = qr/\((?:[^)]*)\)/;
+	my $re_quote = qr/"(?:[^\"\\]|\\.)*"/;
+	my $re_word = qr/(?:[^]["\s()<>:;@\\,.]|\\.)+/;
+
+	# divide the string in tokens of the above form
+	my $re_token = qr/(?:$re_quote|$re_word|$re_comment|\S)/;
+	my @tokens = map { $_ =~ /\s*($re_token)\s*/g } @_;
+
+	# add a delimiter to simplify treatment for the last mailbox
+	push @tokens, ",";
+
+	my (@addr_list, @phrase, @address, @comment, @buffer) = ();
+	foreach my $token (@tokens) {
+		if ($token =~ /^[,;]$/) {
+			# if buffer still contains undeterminated strings
+			# append it at the end of @address or @phrase
+			if (@address) {
+				push @address, @buffer;
+			} else {
+				push @phrase, @buffer;
+			}
+
+			my $str_phrase = join ' ', @phrase;
+			my $str_address = join '', @address;
+			my $str_comment = join ' ', @comment;
+
+			# quote are necessary if phrase contains
+			# special characters
+			if ($str_phrase =~ /[][()<>:;@\\,.\000-\037\177]/) {
+				$str_phrase =~ s/(^|[^\\])"/$1/g;
+				$str_phrase = qq["$str_phrase"];
+			}
+
+			# add "<>" around the address if necessary
+			if ($str_address ne "" && $str_phrase ne "") {
+				$str_address = qq[<$str_address>];
+			}
+
+			my $str_mailbox = "$str_phrase $str_address $str_comment";
+			$str_mailbox =~ s/^\s*|\s*$//g;
+			push @addr_list, $str_mailbox if ($str_mailbox);
+
+			@phrase = @address = @comment = @buffer = ();
+		} elsif ($token =~ /^\(/) {
+			push @comment, $token;
+		} elsif ($token eq "<") {
+			push @phrase, (splice @address), (splice @buffer);
+		} elsif ($token eq ">") {
+			push @address, (splice @buffer);
+		} elsif ($token eq "@") {
+			push @address, (splice @buffer), "@";
+		} elsif ($token eq ".") {
+			push @address, (splice @buffer), ".";
+		} else {
+			push @buffer, $token;
+		}
+	}
+
+	return @addr_list;
+}
 
 =item hash_object ( TYPE, FILENAME )
 
diff --git a/t/t9000-addresses.sh b/t/t9000-addresses.sh
new file mode 100755
index 00000000000..a1ebef6de2c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/t/t9000-addresses.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+
+test_description='compare address parsing with and without Mail::Address'
+. ./test-lib.sh
+
+if ! test_have_prereq PERL; then
+	skip_all='skipping perl interface tests, perl not available'
+	test_done
+fi
+
+perl -MTest::More -e 0 2>/dev/null || {
+	skip_all="Perl Test::More unavailable, skipping test"
+	test_done
+}
+
+perl -MMail::Address -e 0 2>/dev/null || {
+	skip_all="Perl Mail::Address unavailable, skipping test"
+	test_done
+}
+
+test_external_has_tap=1
+
+test_external_without_stderr \
+	'Perl address parsing function' \
+	perl "$TEST_DIRECTORY"/t9000/test.pl
+
+test_done
diff --git a/t/t9000/test.pl b/t/t9000/test.pl
new file mode 100755
index 00000000000..2d05d3eeab3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/t/t9000/test.pl
@@ -0,0 +1,67 @@
+#!/usr/bin/perl
+use lib (split(/:/, $ENV{GITPERLLIB}));
+
+use 5.008;
+use warnings;
+use strict;
+
+use Test::More qw(no_plan);
+use Mail::Address;
+
+BEGIN { use_ok('Git') }
+
+my @success_list = (q[Jane],
+	q[jdoe@example.com],
+	q[<jdoe@example.com>],
+	q[Jane <jdoe@example.com>],
+	q[Jane Doe <jdoe@example.com>],
+	q["Jane" <jdoe@example.com>],
+	q["Doe, Jane" <jdoe@example.com>],
+	q["Jane@:;\>.,()<Doe" <jdoe@example.com>],
+	q[Jane!#$%&'*+-/=?^_{|}~Doe' <jdoe@example.com>],
+	q["<jdoe@example.com>"],
+	q["Jane jdoe@example.com"],
+	q[Jane Doe <jdoe    @   example.com  >],
+	q[Jane       Doe <  jdoe@example.com  >],
+	q[Jane @ Doe @ Jane @ Doe],
+	q["Jane, 'Doe'" <jdoe@example.com>],
+	q['Doe, "Jane' <jdoe@example.com>],
+	q["Jane" "Do"e <jdoe@example.com>],
+	q["Jane' Doe" <jdoe@example.com>],
+	q["Jane Doe <jdoe@example.com>" <jdoe@example.com>],
+	q["Jane\" Doe" <jdoe@example.com>],
+	q[Doe, jane <jdoe@example.com>],
+	q["Jane Doe <jdoe@example.com>],
+	q['Jane 'Doe' <jdoe@example.com>]);
+
+my @known_failure_list = (q[Jane\ Doe <jdoe@example.com>],
+	q["Doe, Ja"ne <jdoe@example.com>],
+	q["Doe, Katarina" Jane <jdoe@example.com>],
+	q[Jane@:;\.,()<>Doe <jdoe@example.com>],
+	q[Jane jdoe@example.com],
+	q[<jdoe@example.com> Jane Doe],
+	q[Jane <jdoe@example.com> Doe],
+	q["Jane "Kat"a" ri"na" ",Doe" <jdoe@example.com>],
+	q[Jane Doe],
+	q[Jane "Doe <jdoe@example.com>"],
+	q[\"Jane Doe <jdoe@example.com>],
+	q[Jane\"\" Doe <jdoe@example.com>],
+	q['Jane "Katarina\" \' Doe' <jdoe@example.com>]);
+
+foreach my $str (@success_list) {
+	my @expected = map { $_->format } Mail::Address->parse("$str");
+	my @actual = Git::parse_mailboxes("$str");
+	is_deeply(\@expected, \@actual, qq[same output : $str]);
+}
+
+TODO: {
+	local $TODO = "known breakage";
+	foreach my $str (@known_failure_list) {
+		my @expected = map { $_->format } Mail::Address->parse("$str");
+		my @actual = Git::parse_mailboxes("$str");
+		is_deeply(\@expected, \@actual, qq[same output : $str]);
+	}
+}
+
+my $is_passing = eval { Test::More->is_passing };
+exit($is_passing ? 0 : 1) unless $@ =~ /Can't locate object method/;
diff --git a/t/t9001-send-email.sh b/t/t9001-send-email.sh
index db2f45e83b1..5b4a5ce06b9 100755
--- a/t/t9001-send-email.sh
+++ b/t/t9001-send-email.sh
@@ -312,13 +312,19 @@ test_expect_success $PREREQ,!AUTOIDENT 'broken implicit ident aborts send-email'
 	)
 '
 
+test_expect_success $PREREQ 'setup tocmd and cccmd scripts' '
+	write_script tocmd-sed <<-\EOF &&
+	sed -n -e "s/^tocmd--//p" "$1"
+	EOF
+	write_script cccmd-sed <<-\EOF
+	sed -n -e "s/^cccmd--//p" "$1"
+	EOF
+'
+
 test_expect_success $PREREQ 'tocmd works' '
 	clean_fake_sendmail &&
 	cp $patches tocmd.patch &&
 	echo tocmd--tocmd@example.com >>tocmd.patch &&
-	write_script tocmd-sed <<-\EOF &&
-	sed -n -e "s/^tocmd--//p" "$1"
-	EOF
 	git send-email \
 		--from="Example <nobody@example.com>" \
 		--to-cmd=./tocmd-sed \
@@ -332,9 +338,6 @@ test_expect_success $PREREQ 'cccmd works' '
 	clean_fake_sendmail &&
 	cp $patches cccmd.patch &&
 	echo "cccmd--  cccmd@example.com" >>cccmd.patch &&
-	write_script cccmd-sed <<-\EOF &&
-	sed -n -e "s/^cccmd--//p" "$1"
-	EOF
 	git send-email \
 		--from="Example <nobody@example.com>" \
 		--to=nobody@example.com \
@@ -519,6 +522,12 @@ Result: OK
 EOF
 "
 
+replace_variable_fields () {
+	sed	-e "s/^\(Date:\).*/\1 DATE-STRING/" \
+		-e "s/^\(Message-Id:\).*/\1 MESSAGE-ID-STRING/" \
+		-e "s/^\(X-Mailer:\).*/\1 X-MAILER-STRING/"
+}
+
 test_suppression () {
 	git send-email \
 		--dry-run \
@@ -526,10 +535,7 @@ test_suppression () {
 		--from="Example <from@example.com>" \
 		--to=to@example.com \
 		--smtp-server relay.example.com \
-		$patches |
-	sed	-e "s/^\(Date:\).*/\1 DATE-STRING/" \
-		-e "s/^\(Message-Id:\).*/\1 MESSAGE-ID-STRING/" \
-		-e "s/^\(X-Mailer:\).*/\1 X-MAILER-STRING/" \
+		$patches | replace_variable_fields \
 		>actual-suppress-$1${2+"-$2"} &&
 	test_cmp expected-suppress-$1${2+"-$2"} actual-suppress-$1${2+"-$2"}
 }
@@ -1621,6 +1627,66 @@ test_sendmail_aliases 'sendmail aliases tolerate bogus line folding' \
 test_sendmail_aliases 'sendmail aliases empty' alice bcgrp <<-\EOF
 	EOF
 
+test_expect_success $PREREQ 'alias support in To header' '
+	clean_fake_sendmail &&
+	echo "alias sbd  someone@example.org" >.mailrc &&
+	test_config sendemail.aliasesfile ".mailrc" &&
+	test_config sendemail.aliasfiletype mailrc &&
+	git format-patch --stdout -1 --to=sbd >aliased.patch &&
+	git send-email \
+		--from="Example <nobody@example.com>" \
+		--smtp-server="$(pwd)/fake.sendmail" \
+		aliased.patch \
+		2>errors >out &&
+	grep "^!someone@example\.org!$" commandline1
+'
+
+test_expect_success $PREREQ 'alias support in Cc header' '
+	clean_fake_sendmail &&
+	echo "alias sbd  someone@example.org" >.mailrc &&
+	test_config sendemail.aliasesfile ".mailrc" &&
+	test_config sendemail.aliasfiletype mailrc &&
+	git format-patch --stdout -1 --cc=sbd >aliased.patch &&
+	git send-email \
+		--from="Example <nobody@example.com>" \
+		--smtp-server="$(pwd)/fake.sendmail" \
+		aliased.patch \
+		2>errors >out &&
+	grep "^!someone@example\.org!$" commandline1
+'
+
+test_expect_success $PREREQ 'tocmd works with aliases' '
+	clean_fake_sendmail &&
+	echo "alias sbd  someone@example.org" >.mailrc &&
+	test_config sendemail.aliasesfile ".mailrc" &&
+	test_config sendemail.aliasfiletype mailrc &&
+	git format-patch --stdout -1 >tocmd.patch &&
+	echo tocmd--sbd >>tocmd.patch &&
+	git send-email \
+		--from="Example <nobody@example.com>" \
+		--to-cmd=./tocmd-sed \
+		--smtp-server="$(pwd)/fake.sendmail" \
+		tocmd.patch \
+		2>errors >out &&
+	grep "^!someone@example\.org!$" commandline1
+'
+
+test_expect_success $PREREQ 'cccmd works with aliases' '
+	clean_fake_sendmail &&
+	echo "alias sbd  someone@example.org" >.mailrc &&
+	test_config sendemail.aliasesfile ".mailrc" &&
+	test_config sendemail.aliasfiletype mailrc &&
+	git format-patch --stdout -1 >cccmd.patch &&
+	echo cccmd--sbd >>cccmd.patch &&
+	git send-email \
+		--from="Example <nobody@example.com>" \
+		--cc-cmd=./cccmd-sed \
+		--smtp-server="$(pwd)/fake.sendmail" \
+		cccmd.patch \
+		2>errors >out &&
+	grep "^!someone@example\.org!$" commandline1
+'
+
 do_xmailer_test () {
 	expected=$1 params=$2 &&
 	git format-patch -1 &&
@@ -1654,4 +1720,72 @@ test_expect_success $PREREQ '--[no-]xmailer with sendemail.xmailer=false' '
 	do_xmailer_test 1 "--xmailer"
 '
 
+test_expect_success $PREREQ 'setup expected-list' '
+	git send-email \
+	--dry-run \
+	--from="Example <from@example.com>" \
+	--to="To 1 <to1@example.com>" \
+	--to="to2@example.com" \
+	--to="to3@example.com" \
+	--cc="Cc 1 <cc1@example.com>" \
+	--cc="Cc2 <cc2@example.com>" \
+	--bcc="bcc1@example.com" \
+	--bcc="bcc2@example.com" \
+	0001-add-master.patch | replace_variable_fields \
+	>expected-list
+'
+
+test_expect_success $PREREQ 'use email list in --cc --to and --bcc' '
+	git send-email \
+	--dry-run \
+	--from="Example <from@example.com>" \
+	--to="To 1 <to1@example.com>, to2@example.com" \
+	--to="to3@example.com" \
+	--cc="Cc 1 <cc1@example.com>, Cc2 <cc2@example.com>" \
+	--bcc="bcc1@example.com, bcc2@example.com" \
+	0001-add-master.patch | replace_variable_fields \
+	>actual-list &&
+	test_cmp expected-list actual-list
+'
+
+test_expect_success $PREREQ 'aliases work with email list' '
+	echo "alias to2 to2@example.com" >.mutt &&
+	echo "alias cc1 Cc 1 <cc1@example.com>" >>.mutt &&
+	test_config sendemail.aliasesfile ".mutt" &&
+	test_config sendemail.aliasfiletype mutt &&
+	git send-email \
+	--dry-run \
+	--from="Example <from@example.com>" \
+	--to="To 1 <to1@example.com>, to2, to3@example.com" \
+	--cc="cc1, Cc2 <cc2@example.com>" \
+	--bcc="bcc1@example.com, bcc2@example.com" \
+	0001-add-master.patch | replace_variable_fields \
+	>actual-list &&
+	test_cmp expected-list actual-list
+'
+
+test_expect_success $PREREQ 'leading and trailing whitespaces are removed' '
+	echo "alias to2 to2@example.com" >.mutt &&
+	echo "alias cc1 Cc 1 <cc1@example.com>" >>.mutt &&
+	test_config sendemail.aliasesfile ".mutt" &&
+	test_config sendemail.aliasfiletype mutt &&
+	TO1=$(echo "QTo 1 <to1@example.com>" | q_to_tab) &&
+	TO2=$(echo "QZto2" | qz_to_tab_space) &&
+	CC1=$(echo "cc1" | append_cr) &&
+	BCC1=$(echo "Q bcc1@example.com Q" | q_to_nul) &&
+	git send-email \
+	--dry-run \
+	--from="	Example <from@example.com>" \
+	--to="$TO1" \
+	--to="$TO2" \
+	--to="  to3@example.com   " \
+	--cc="$CC1" \
+	--cc="Cc2 <cc2@example.com>" \
+	--bcc="$BCC1" \
+	--bcc="bcc2@example.com" \
+	0001-add-master.patch | replace_variable_fields \
+	>actual-list &&
+	test_cmp expected-list actual-list
+'
+
 test_done