1918056 - No longer possible to override "prefer display name" on a per-address basis

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1898896

(Thunderbird :: Untriaged, defect)

Description

[Tom Hughes]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:130.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/130.0

Steps to reproduce:

Upgraded from thunderbird 115 to thunderbird 128.

Actual results:

My mailing list folders stopped showing who sent the message where the mailing list had to rewrite the sender address because the "prefer display name" setting in the address book that I was using to exclude mailling lists addresses from showing the display name has been removed.

Expected results:

The ability to override "prefer display name" for particular senders should have been preserved or some suitable equivalent functionality should have been provided.

Comment 1

[Tom Hughes]

See https://thunderbird.topicbox.com/groups/planning/Tec65c7b3d9001140-M8645baa1e9adbf56c833700b for where this was planned and this exact problem was pointed out and ignored.

Also bug 1898896 where this was raised and dismissed.

Comment 2

[Francesco]

Since you've already done some research, you will have noticed that the feature was explicitly removed in bug 1894048 comment 9. The checkin comment reads:
Remove the PreferDisplayName individual property from the contacts and only respect the global condensedAddress pref.

Comment 4

[Tom Hughes]

I mean this isn't really a duplicate of that but I guess that's my answer, that users of mailing lists are no longer of any interest to the Thunderbird maintainers.