1183112 - From: should be displayed as it was delivered

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Thunderbird :: Untriaged, defect)

Description

[Toralf Förster]

Attachment: [portage] ebuild log for net-misc_tor-0.2.6.10 on tor-relay.zwiebeltoralf.de.eml

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:39.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/39.0
Build ID: 20150711190510

Steps to reproduce:

I get emails send by my tinderbox to my (technical) account.
I use ssmtp (a very simple MTA) for transfering the mails from my server to my IMAP hoster.
The From: contains particular different user strings



Actual results:

Those user strings are not displayed, instead I always see "Me"


Expected results:

As in the example, show 
From: portage tor-relay <[e-mail]>
rather than From: "Me ...."

Comment 1

[Toralf Förster]

Attachment: screen shot showing the current From: line

Comment 2

[Thomas D. (:thomas8)]

Toralf, there's an option in settings which achieves what you want:
Tools > Options > Display > Advanced > [ ] Show only display names for people in my address book
Uncheck that option, and you'll see the real strings in the message header.
(Unfortunately it won't work for the recipients column and other columns, but that's another story).

Please let us know if that solves your scenario, or what other improvements you'd suggest.

In the meantime, I'll close this bug as invalid because we're offering that functionality.