I see this too. I've logged
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=101162
-Seth
Pete Flugstad wrote:
> Mozilla 0.9.4, all OSes I believe... (well, at least Windows
> and Linux).
>
> This may have been asked before...
>
> In my Sent folder, the message summary window displays a
> "Recipient" column instead of a Sender column. The value
> for this column is the first entry in each email's To: field.
>
> I periodically take my Sent folder (usually when it get's to
> ~500-600 messages) rename it to Sent_<Date> and make it a
> sub-folder of Sent. This is to speed things up and make
> sync'ing a couple of different machines easier
>
> When I look at one of these renamed Sent folders in Mozilla
> 0.9.4, I still get the Recipient column, but the value is
> the From: field (the sender) rather than the To: field (like
> the actual Sent folder).
>
> Seems rather inconsistent to me, since the email is
> From: my email, but the column title is Recipient. I would
> prefer that this behave like the normal Sent folder (Recipient
> column derived from email To: list).
>
> Bug?
>
> Pete Flugstad
>
> Note: Netscape 4.XX treats these folders like normal folders
> of mail you have received, which is annoying, but livable.
>
