diff --git a/lib/__tests__/email-composer-utils.test.ts b/lib/__tests__/email-composer-utils.test.ts
index 00e9b1b22..7f0aaa90e 100644
--- a/lib/__tests__/email-composer-utils.test.ts
+++ b/lib/__tests__/email-composer-utils.test.ts
@@ -289,6 +289,23 @@ describe("splitRecipients", () => {
     expect(splitRecipients("")).toEqual([]);
   });
 
+  it("still splits when an angle run never closes", () => {
+    expect(
+      splitRecipients("Ap Reinders <ap@x.com, Erwin Beets <erwin@x.com, jaco@x.com"),
+    ).toEqual([
+      "Ap Reinders <ap@x.com",
+      "Erwin Beets <erwin@x.com",
+      "jaco@x.com",
+    ]);
+  });
+
+  it("splits when only the last entry closes its angle brackets", () => {
+    expect(splitRecipients("Ap <ap@x.com, Bob <bob@y.com>")).toEqual([
+      "Ap <ap@x.com",
+      "Bob <bob@y.com>",
+    ]);
+  });
+
   it("only splits on the given separators (default comma keeps semicolons/newlines literal)", () => {
     expect(splitRecipients("a@x.com; b@y.com")).toEqual(["a@x.com; b@y.com"]);
   });
@@ -410,6 +427,24 @@ describe("splitPastedRecipients", () => {
   it("returns empty arrays for blank input", () => {
     expect(splitPastedRecipients("   ")).toEqual({ valid: [], invalid: [] });
   });
+
+  it("recovers every recipient from a list whose closing brackets are missing", () => {
+    const { valid, invalid } = splitPastedRecipients(
+      "Ap Reinders <ap@x.com, Erwin Beets <erwin@x.com, jaco@x.com",
+    );
+    expect(valid).toEqual([
+      { name: "Ap Reinders", email: "ap@x.com" },
+      { name: "Erwin Beets", email: "erwin@x.com" },
+      { email: "jaco@x.com" },
+    ]);
+    expect(invalid).toEqual([]);
+  });
+
+  it("keeps the display name of a `Name <email` entry missing its bracket", () => {
+    const { valid, invalid } = splitPastedRecipients("John Doe <j@x.com");
+    expect(valid).toEqual([{ name: "John Doe", email: "j@x.com" }]);
+    expect(invalid).toEqual([]);
+  });
 });
 
 describe("waitForPendingUploads", () => {
diff --git a/lib/email-composer-utils.ts b/lib/email-composer-utils.ts
index abff6ed46..f61985c57 100644
--- a/lib/email-composer-utils.ts
+++ b/lib/email-composer-utils.ts
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 import { isValidEmail } from "@/lib/validation";
+import { splitMailbox } from "@/lib/rfc5322-mailbox";
 import { htmlToPlainText } from "@/lib/html-to-text";
 import { emailHooks } from "@/lib/plugin-hooks";
 import { Ellipsis, Lock, TriangleAlert } from "lucide-react";
@@ -241,6 +242,18 @@ export async function enrichChipsWithColorsAndIcons(chips: Recipient[]): Promise
   return await emailHooks.onRecipientChipsChange.transform(chips);
 };
 
+/**
+ * True when the angle run open at `from` closes before the next one opens. A
+ * `<` with no `>` of its own (or whose `>` sits past a later `<`) can never be
+ * an address delimiter, so separators after it must stay separators.
+ */
+function angleRunCloses(value: string, from: number): boolean {
+  const close = value.indexOf('>', from);
+  if (close === -1) return false;
+  const nextOpen = value.indexOf('<', from);
+  return nextOpen === -1 || close < nextOpen;
+}
+
 /**
  * Splits a recipient string into individual entries on any character in
  * `separators`, treating those characters as literal when they sit inside a
@@ -257,7 +270,8 @@ export function splitRecipients(value: string, separators = ','): string[] {
   let inQuotes = false;
   let inAngle = false;
   let inGroup = false;
-  for (const ch of value) {
+  for (let i = 0; i < value.length; i++) {
+    const ch = value[i];
     if (ch === '"') {
       inQuotes = !inQuotes;
       current += ch;
@@ -267,6 +281,13 @@ export function splitRecipients(value: string, separators = ','): string[] {
     } else if (ch === '>' && !inQuotes) {
       inAngle = false;
       current += ch;
+    } else if (separators.includes(ch) && inAngle && !inQuotes && !angleRunCloses(value, i)) {
+      // An unclosed `<` would otherwise swallow every later separator, folding
+      // the whole list into one entry that is not an address at all.
+      inAngle = false;
+      const trimmed = current.trim();
+      if (trimmed) result.push(trimmed);
+      current = '';
     } else if (ch === ':' && !inQuotes && !inAngle) {
       // RFC 5322 group syntax ("Team: a@x, b@y;") - keep the whole group,
       // separators inside it included, as a single entry. A colon inside a
@@ -429,6 +450,8 @@ function splitPasteEntries(value: string): string[] {
  *   semicolon/newline separated) split into one chip per address.
  * - A token wrapped in angle brackets (`<a@x.com>`) is unwrapped before
  *   validating, so an `a <a@x.com>` fragment still yields the address.
+ * - `Name <email` entries that lost their closing bracket keep both the name
+ *   and the address instead of falling apart into bare words.
  */
 export function splitPastedRecipients(
   text: string,
@@ -460,7 +483,11 @@ export function splitPastedRecipients(
     const unwrapped = unquoteName(entry);
     if (unwrapped !== entry && tryAdd(parseRecipient(unwrapped))) continue;
 
-    // 2. Fallback: a bare-address run (`a@x.com b@y.com`) or a
+    // 2. `Name <email` with the closing bracket lost - splitMailbox tolerates
+    //    the missing `>`, so the display name survives the paste.
+    if (tryAdd(splitMailbox(entry))) continue;
+
+    // 3. Fallback: a bare-address run (`a@x.com b@y.com`) or a
     //    `John Doe <j@x.com>` fragment where only the <addr> is valid.
     //    Whitespace/semicolon-tokenize; leftover tokens stay behind.
     for (const token of entry.split(/[\s;]+/).map((t) => t.trim()).filter(Boolean)) {