--Randall
On 5 Mar 2018, at 8:17, Benny Kjær Nielsen wrote:
On 5 Mar 2018, at 5:25, Randall Gellens wrote:
MailMate could display the names differently (without altering
them when replying/forwarding), but I really mean it when I write
that it's extremely hard to do this reliably :) As as simple
example, someone might use this: "PhD Nielsen, Benny" and it would
become "Benny PhD Nielsen".
I agree it’s likely impossible to have an algorithm that always
does the correct thing. However, one that usually does the correct
thing is good enough.
The problem is that it would be very annoying when it fails. Then
the user has to manually edit the header to get it right.
No, the user can ignore it, because it likely won’t be any worse
than doing nothing.
If MailMate reorders something wrongly and then puts that in an
outgoing message then I think it's worse than doing nothing. But
again, if we are only talking about how MailMate displays names then
it's not a problem. Only the user of MailMate is affected when/if it
fails.
As an aside, this “Outlook name conversion” was one of my
favorite features of Mac Eudora, because it made it much easier to
read the recipient lists.
Ah, displaying recipients is a different story. I was mainly
thinking of composing messages. In this case, it would be ok if it
fails some times.
Yes, exactly, although Eudora also used the modified form when
sending replies, which was nice.
I wouldn't be comfortable with that unless the user has verified it,
e.g., by adding the correspondent to the address book (Contacts).
I think if the modified name was the result of a user-set regex, and
showed in the composition window for replies, then perhaps a way to
visually indicate in the composition window that the name was modified
with a way to revert, would be more than sufficient.
I don't have time right now, but I could probably make a custom file
for you which would replace the default “To” column with a
“Last, First” variant.
I wonder if an option to have a regex for name alteration might be a
workable approach? Leave it to the user to devise a good regex.
That's kind of how it already works. It's low-level though, both how
to redefine a message list column and how to change the regex for
finding first/last name. Would you like me to describe how this is
done? (You might prefer to just hope that it'll be easier to customize
some day.)
It’s not just the column display in the mailbox, but also the message
display when viewing a message. But, yes, if that can be modified, that
would be helpful.
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