393431 - message list shows display names in Sender column, not email addresses

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 377036

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, defect)

Description

[Kevin Gainer]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.6) Gecko/20070725 Firefox/2.0.0.6
Build Identifier: version 2.0.0.6 (20070728)

If I get an email from "Paypal.com <[e-mail]>" or "Amazon.com <virus@storm_botnet.com>" all I see in the Sender column is "Paypal.com" or "Amazon.com".

This is undesirable behavior at best and a serious security hazard at worst.

Please add an option to about:config that will enable users to turn this unpleasant and dangerous behavior off.


Reproducible: Always

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Comment 1

[Kevin Gainer]

The Show Address add-on (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/4121) provides a good workaround.  Nonetheless, I maintain that this problem should be fixed in Thunderbird itself.  --KEG

Comment 2

[Philip Pawley]

As Kevin says, the Show Address extension does provide a good workaround. However the extension only installs if its maxVersion setting is first changed from Thunderbird 2.0 to, say, Thunderbird 2.1. 

That's not a reasonable thing to ask of an ordinary user, even if they ever do find the add-on.

This problem really does need fixing in Thunderbird itself. I'd do it myself if I knew how.

Comment 3

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

Basically bug 377036, I'd hate having to have an extra column for this, but the tooltip would be nice.