On Fri, 10 Oct 2025, Hans-Martin Mosner via mailop wrote:
Am 10.10.25 um 10:50 schrieb Tim Bray via mailop:
1) Display the email address not the name in your email folders
I wonder how anyone in their right mind could have come up with the idea that
hiding the e-mail sender address *except for verified known senders* is a
good idea at all.
IIRC the email sender address was dropped before *verified known senders*
were invented, presumably on the grounds that these MTAs were short of
screen space. Both the sender address and the sender name can
trivially be spoofed so are unreliable; the obvious thing to do was to
display the friendly name designed for humans and not the address designed
for computers.
Once this had happened, people wanted to see the sender address, so
the verified known sender concept was invented, and hence DKIM and
possibly SPF ...
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Andrew C. Aitchison Kendal, UK
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