Several things can change this, depending on many factors. For example, if you are using Mail.app, the "cosmetic" email address you see will be keyed to what is in the Mac OS X address book. This has gotten me in trouble many times. I believe the "key" used is the actual email address, but if you have the friends name set to "Jerk Face" that is what will show up as the sender in Mail.app.
Please test thoroughly on your own system as so many variables can affect the outcome. In the past I have found if you have the sender in your Gmail Contacts Database, (not the local Apple Address Book but Google's online Contact Database) it will "key" to the email address, and then display the name set For First and Last. I have also seen it use the nickname in some scenarios. If there is no entry in your Google Contacts Database, it will fall back on the cosmetic from: in the email headers. If there is no cosmetic from: in the headers, which is rare, fallbacks on Return-Path and Reply-To are probably used. You could go into your Google Contact Database and make alterations to clean this up. Again, so many variables, it is best to test thoroughly or you will reply to people in a way you don't necessarily mean to. I am waiting on a reply from MailPlane support, but if MailPlane supports Safari Extensions, there is a tremendous amount of flexibility that can be achieved on the display side of MailPlane, and often the functionality side as well. Without Safari Extension support, we are limited to cosmetic css changes. For example, I have been able to remove the fourth column in the three column email pane view to give me more width to compose messages. The Safari Extension 'NinjaKit' enables most 'UserScripts' aka: GreaseMonkey Scripts. It does so without the mess of SIMBL/GreaseKit (Which does not work at all in Safari 5) or other system level alterations. There already are several user scripts that will alter the email address of the sender. You currently can save the step of clicking on "more info" by hovering over the email address for ~half a second; a pop over will show the contact record and full email address. Hope that helps. I will try to follow up on any info about Safari Extensions. On Aug 5, 4:42 am, Argelius <[email protected]> wrote: > I think I know the explanation to this, but thought I'd ask anyway. > > In GMail email messages, some senders will be listed in the TO field > as "John Smith". > Others just as "John". In order to figure out which of the 10 Johns I > know send the message, I have to click on "more info" to see the full > email address. > > I'm guessing this is has to do with how the sender entered their email > credentials in whatever email client they are using and is out of the > hands of Google (and, obviously, MailPlane). > > Just thought I'd ask. > > Thanks! -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "mailplaneapp" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/mailplaneapp?hl=en.
