Trying to craft a regexp

From: Manuel VáZquez Acosta (manu_at_chasqui.cu)
Date: 10/30/03 

To: php-general@lists.php.net
Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2003 22:07:59 -0500

Hi all:

I'm trying to find every simple mail address in an HTML that is not inside
an A tag.

I have tried this regexp:
(?<!maito\:)(\w+@\w+(?:\.\w+)+)(?![^<]*?</a>)

But its not working as I expect cause the only address in my tested HTML is:

<a href=mailto:manu_like@yahoo.com class="link-home">My address</a>

Any tips?
Manu.

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