Just to say that newly installed Thunderbird (68.3.1) on this new
xmas-present-to-self laptop was
manifesting the anonymising behaviour on some senders' names.
The procedure described below changing a display option still works,
I'm glad to say.
FYI
Mike
On 14/05/2019 17:40, 'Mike Day' via Chat wrote:
OK!!!
It's easy when you see it! I'm glad I asked, if only to set this down
for next time one of us needs it.
Using Thunderbird's (v60.6.1) very latest fashionable menu "button",
namely the three horizontal bars below the X-widget for close-window,
select Options/Options to display a dialog box;
in the dialog box, select the Display tab, and within its sub-dialog,
select the Advanced tab.
This reveals two areas, "Reading" and "DIsplay" :
in the Display area, ensure the tick box, "_S_how only display names
for people in my address book", does NOT have a tick,
and OK the Options dialog.
I had a look at but didn't try "remove self from addess book."
Thanks for your ideas,
Mike
On 14/05/2019 15:54, 'Mike Day' via Chat wrote:
Yes, I'm on 60.6.1 as well! Perhaps our T/bird set-ups got swapped....
I agree its behaviour is consistent in that individuals are
consistently treated
one way or the other!
Weird,
Mike
On 14/05/2019 15:06, David Mitchell wrote:
I have been seeing the 'anonymizing' issue for years with Tbird.
Some messages showed the "From" field value as the name of the
Forum. I never determined why some messages in the forums showed
this and some did not. It seemed to be consistent for particular
senders.
Several weeks ago, this changed for me. I now see some From values as:
'Mike Day' via Chat
Plus, my older messages were retroactively fixed.
So, I suspect that Tbird has had some recent changes that fixed it
for me. I am running Tbird 60.6.1.
David Mitchell
On 5/14/2019 09:22, chris burke wrote:
I don't see this problem using Gmail.
Is the Tbird behaviour consistent? It seems that Skip and Pascal were
anonymized, but is this always the case? If so, check your address
book
entries for them.
Also, is it possible to customize the "Correspondents" column in
Tbird, so
as to force showing the "From" address for the forums?
On Tue, May 14, 2019 at 1:42 AM 'Mike Day' via Chat
<[email protected]>
wrote:
Sorry to ask this again - Chris set me right some time ago, but I
can't
find his advice, nor can I remember how to show myself and others,
such
as Skip Cave, I think, by name rather than as "Programming Forum",
both
in the "Correspondents" column in Mozilla Thunderbird's list of
emails,
and, in an individual message window, the names shown as From and To.
I don't know if this is a feature of other email support software
- I've
always favoured T/Bird.
This isn't (only!) a matter of vanity - it's a pain looking at a
stream
of messages listed by thread and looking for a particular person's
contribution.
For example, in RE Boss's recent thread on "seqfan problem", all
contributors' names except mine are displayed, Boss, Hui, Alvord
et al,
but I'm anonymous, so not too difficult. However, in Skip Cave's
thread
"Largest & Smallest", both he and I are anonymous, while Roger &
Nollaig
are there by name. As for Piet de Jong's thread, "Passing on"
monad/dyad
information, I have no idea who commented: " Cliff's answer is
helpful
IMO,"
I think the answer might be something to do with the "Address
Book" but
can't remember. It's probably thought to be intuitive, but it beats
me! J's easy by comparison...
Thanks,
Mike
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