The full description shows when composing an email, but not when receiving one (which is arguably more important, since most emails are read, but not all replied to). In my case, I'm not using digest mode and the issue remains.
My understanding is that mailman is not aggressive enough to control the naming, but the list definitely affects the naming, as the names are identical to the descriptions. If mailman can't be wrangled to avoid the description as a name, I would suggest a happy medium of description and underscores. :) On Mon, Jun 15, 2015 at 11:09 AM, Gergo Tisza <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Jun 15, 2015 at 9:43 AM, Arthur Richards <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> I have no idea why this also gets used as the sender's name, but >> presumably it's something that mailman (our mailing list software) is >> doing. This would be a good question to ask about on wikitech-l or of the >> WMF ops staff (eg in #wikimedia-operations on freenode) since they maintain >> our lists infrastructure. >> > > Normally, it does not. (It is used in the Reply-To: field, but From: is > the person who wrote the mail, and that's the one Gmail displays.) I > suspect Max is using digest mode. (With Gmail there is no reason to do that > IMO, it is great at grouping related conversations.) > > The only places where the list name shows up clipped in Gmail is the To: > field, and that reflects whatever the post author's mail client put there, > which is in Gmail's case the name of the contact. Renaming the list > probably would not change it. > > _______________________________________________ > teampractices mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/teampractices > >
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