Re: Email address as fullname in To: field

On Fri, 10 Nov 2017, Philip Prindeville wrote: It’s like someone made the conscious decision to choose the worst of both worlds… ... must ... resist ... MSFT ... dig ... nngngghhh ... -- John Hardin KA7OHZhttp://www.impsec.org/~jhardin/ jhar...@impsec.orgFALaholic

Re: Email address as fullname in To: field

Anyone have an idea what software first started doing this? Or have any idea why ANYONE would think this was a good idea? The weird part is that I’m seeing machine generated email where I *know* they have my full name and they could be using that to synthesize the email but they don’t. Or,

Email address as fullname in To: field

I’m getting more and more email as: To: “joeb...@example.com” anyone know why there’s an increase in this? Did Exchange recently get broken so that it’s not populating the Addressbook properly? I noticed that even legitimate promotional mailers (like 1800petmeds.com) are