On 2012–12–22 Andre Klärner wrote:

> Well, from the manpage of abook I guess that is not possible. But from my
> perspective it is the right way to do it as it is. I think of it as a
> properly written address is better than just the technical declaration of
> the receipient (like on an official invitation the sometimes handwritten
> address on the envelope), but this is just me.

I totally agree with you. However, I think it can be useful at
times, especially for mailing lists. I have some mailing lists that
have a quite long name, but in abook I stored them with a custom
abbreviation, instead of the official one.

mailing list for users of foo <[email protected]>
mailing list for foo development <[email protected]>
mailing list for foo announcements <[email protected]>

I store them in abook as

foo <[email protected]>
foodev <[email protected]>
spam from foo <[email protected]>

In this case I surely don't want to post to the list as “foodev” or
“spam from foo”. In this case it might be a nice feature to not use
the full name by default. For mailing lists the recipient name is
mostly irrelevant.

Marco

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