On Tue, Sep 29, 2015 at 11:03 AM, Dan Bron <[email protected]> wrote: >> This discussion belongs in the chat forum. > > I believe administrivia is supposed to be directed to the General forum.
Ok. >> Also, if you could give an example other than yourself of someone >> whose name is handled properly, it would be easier to study the issue. >> (Mail client software might have special case code for the sender's >> messages.) >> > > In my experience, everyone except Pascal. Which includes myself, yourself, > Mike, Skip, Linda, David, bill, Devon, R.E. Boss, etc. > > Unlike for Mike, Jon Hough’s messages carry the appropriate sender field, for > me (i.e. are marked as from “Jon Hough” and not from “J Programming”, whereas > Pascal’s are always marked as being sent by “J Programming). Ok, comparing Mike's headers with Pascal's. The Sender: header is identical. Both are Sender: [email protected] But that's from the forum software, which moves the original Sender: header's value to the X-Original-Sender: header: X-Original-Sender: [email protected] X-Original-Sender: [email protected] I don't see anything about this, though, that would be an issue. A much more likely-to-be-relevant header, though, is the From: header. This is traditionally what mail software uses: From: Mike Day <[email protected]> From: "'Pascal Jasmin' via Programming" <[email protected]> X-Original-From: Pascal Jasmin <[email protected]> Oddly, there's no X-Original-From: on Mike Day's messages, and the format of Pascal's original from is identical to Mike's. So this suggests some mail server is changing the from header on Pascal's headers in a fashion which triggers some header parsing feature in thunderbird. Looking closer at the context of that X-Original-From header: X-Spam-Checked-In-Group: [email protected] X-Google-Group-Id: 773655424565 X-Original-From: Pascal Jasmin <[email protected]> So my guess is that the thunderbird client is designed to throw away information in the from header and google groups are designed to add some information to the from header and the net effect is that the person's name gets lost when displayed by thunderbird. Since both Apple and Google are huge corporations, I expect that efficiency constraints mean that neither is going to be to inclined to address this particular issue. Which basically means that if you want it to change you'll probably have to come up with something you like. Good luck, -- Raul ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
