I am missing a non-hidden equivalent of email._parseaddr.AddressList.
AddressList was retained from the former rfc822 module and is still used internally.

Yes, there is email.utils but for what I know, with the provided functionality it is not possible to parse a comma separated list of email addresses (ex. "a@example.com, b@example.com").

Since RFC5322 allow commas in the local part [1], one cannot simply split a list of email addresses by comma and use email.utils.getaddresses.

[1] http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5322#section-3.2.3