139902 - In my inbox, the "SENDER" column actually shows the "RECIPIENT"

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 114533

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Message Display, defect)

Description

[Stephan Golux]

Hello.  Odd behavior... in my inbox, the "SENDER" column shows the first person
in the "TO" list of the message.

Any messages I move from the INBOX to the SENT MAIL folder, shows up with the
recipient in the column as well, but that seems to work as the column is titled
"RECIPIENT" in that case.

Any other folder I move the mail to, seems to properly show the SENDER in the
column marked "SENDER".

Problem seems to be with INBOX only.

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Sounds like bug 114533 ('"Sender" column lists recipient when INBOX is set as
the "Sent" folder').  _Is_ your INBOX set as the "Sent" folder?

Comment 2

[Stephan Golux]

Interesting.

I had originally set my INBOX to sent folder, but didn't like the behavior, so I
switched to getting sent mail by BCC.  This grayed out the section about about
placing sent mail in any folder, although (even unselected and grayed out) INBOX
was the folder of choice.

So, after reading Boris' idea, I went in, reselected "copy sent mail to INBOX",
deselected INBOX and set it back to SENT, and then unselected that and went back
to BCC.  Now it all works.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 114533 ***

Comment 3

[laurel]

marking verified as a duplicate