It could equally well use the From header but looks only at the email address part, between the < > symbols, before searching the Address Book for contacts. There is an extremely fast AppleScript command 'find' which finds contacts from email addresses. I'd guess that it accesses the same event which does this in the recipient box. If there's more than one result, it probably just gets the first one it finds there (which may be alphabetical or may be by ID - which one was created first in your Address Book. You could check that out by deleting the first alphabetical contact fro the address Book, then recreating it Is that still the one that shows up, or does the next one now show up instead?)
You'd have to test with a contact who has a different Reply-To address than the address they're sending from, and only the one they're sending from (not the Reply-To_ entered in your address book. in this case, does it find the contact or list it as yellow @-sign recipient? Then you'd know if it uses >From header or Return-Path header. -- Paul Berkowitz > From: Jim Colgate <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: "Entourage:mac Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Tue, 09 Apr 2002 07:09:39 -0700 > To: Entourage Mailing LIst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: Attribution line > > But, entourage does have a related quirk. I have several entries in my > address book with different display names, but the same e-mail address. My > sister's family send e-mail with their own unique display name, but use the > same e-mail address. When I reply to one of the messages, the display name > gets set to the alphabetically first display name in my address book, > regardless of what was in the From header of the e-mail I am responding to. > Strange. > > Never mind. I just did a little research as evidenced in this thread and > found that the Return-Path header just has the address, no display name > there. So I guess that when doing a reply that the Return-Path header is > used and the display name is selected from the first matching entry in the > address book. And if there is no matching entry you get just the address > with the "yellow @ symbol" to indicate that it is not in the address book. > In this case the From header has nothing to do with the action. > > We learn more every day. > > Jim > >> From: Dennis Burnham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Reply-To: "Entourage:mac Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Date: Tue, 09 Apr 2002 08:00:12 -0400 >> To: "Entourage:mac Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Subject: Re: Attribution line >> >> Thanks, Paul, for helping me analyze this. I now realize that the frequency >> of my seeing the email address @ email address attribution is the way >> people complete their preferences fields in their email software. In other >> words, it's not Entourage or the address book; we are at the mercy of those >> who write to us. >> >> Thanks again, >> >> Dennis Burnham >> >> >> -- >> To unsubscribe: >> <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> archives: >> <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.letterrip.com/> >> old-archive: >> <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.boingo.com/> > > > -- > To unsubscribe: > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > archives: > <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.letterrip.com/> > old-archive: > <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.boingo.com/> > -- To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> archives: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.letterrip.com/> old-archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.boingo.com/>
