On 04-10-19 04:31, Bill Cole wrote:
On 3 Oct 2019, at 20:01, Rick Cooper wrote:
Philip wrote:
Morning List,
Lately I'm getting a bunch of emails that are showing up with two
email addresses in the From: field.
From: "Persons Name <lo...@address.nz>" <s...@address.com>
When you look in your mail client (Outlook, Thunderbird) it's showing
only "Persons Name <lo...@address.nz>"
Is there a way I can mark From: that has 2 email addresses in it as
spam? Pro's Cons?
Phil
From: =~ /^.*?<.+?\@.+?>.*?<.+\@.+?>/g
Can't imagine the circumstance where such a from: format would be
required
I've seen it used as a perfectly reasonable workaround for the
misfeature described above of many MUAs of hiding the address field in
To/From/CC headers. Because many people actually want to know what the
actual address is.
I would disagree on the "reasonable" here. People using a mailclient
should configure it as they wish. My client hides email addresses for
everyone in my address book, but not for 'unknown' addresses.
That is how I like it, and I don't think senders should try to enforce a
workaround for this because their recipients are too stupid to configure
their email client (or switch to a decent one).
Anyway, the main harm is done when the email adresses in the 'addr'
field and the 'name' are different, and that's detectable.
Kind regards,
Tom
