666906 - Bugzilla mails with From user as "Bugzilla (for User A)" causing display inconsistencies

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 474721

(Thunderbird :: Message Reader UI, defect)

Description

[Jithin Emmanuel]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; rv:5.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/5.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; rv:5.0) Gecko/20110620 Thunderbird/5.0b2

If a bugzilla mail has from user whose name is Bugzilla (for User A) and email id [e-mail]. Adding this to address book(by clicking on the email on the header bar) will result in all mails from [e-mail] to be displayed as Bugzilla (for User A)
So if there are bugzilla mails from User B, in the message header that will also be displayed as Bugzilla for User A.

Situation here is all bugzilla notification mails have same email id [e-mail] bug Name will be different based on which user initiated the action. But if I happen to add anyone of them to address book(accidentally) then all mails from bugzilla will be displayed in the UI as mails from that particular user.

I think name is being fetched from Address book, If name can be fetched message itself this display inconsistency can be avoided.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. From bugzilla mails click on a mail from any user and add to address book.
2. Now all mails from bugzilla will be displayed as mails form the above user.
3.

Actual Results:  
Sender name is picked up from address book.

Expected Results:  
The UI could have picked the sender name from message itself instead of taking from the address book.

Comment 1

[Jim Porter (:squib)]

Go to the contact's details and deselect "Always prefer display name over message header".