Stan Goodman said the following on 07/09/2011 10:15 AM:
You may well be right that the two parts of a name will be concatenated in sent messages.
Since I checked before posting I am confident that I am :-)
I hadn't tried sending mail to any of those records that lacked a display name, and now they have all been fixed. My complaint was about the displayed list of addresses in the Address Book window, where the absence of a display name often made it impossible to know to whom the record belonged. If you are correct about the ability to concatenate, one wonders why the Address Book doesn't exploit that ability, but instead falls back on the email username, which is often cryptic.
Thunderbird has to deal with what it is dealt. If we are talking abut incoming mail that you reply to that ends up in "collected addresses" (until you move then) then its parsing the "From: " line. If all that's there is the "@" then that's all it has to deal with. If its the examples I gave that meet the RFC then it can work with that. Yes, people do send mail with just their address; some (make that many!) lists do too. On Yahoo(groups) and Google(groups) people have account names - handles, labels, tags, aliases - that are separate from their email addresses. This is still not their name. Some people are like that. Some professional lists I'm on won't allow subscribers to stay unless they clearly identify themselves by real name. It doesn't have to be in the email address, but still And lets face it, going though your mbox files (or even MaiDir directories) with grep, building a list, sorting and uniq-ing it, cleaning it up, then running it through awk or perl to build a series of LDIF or VCF entries isn't a big deal. -- The improvement of our way of life is more important than the spreading of it. If we make it satisfactory enough, it will spread automatically. If we do not, no strength of arms can permanently oppose it. - Charles A. Lindbergh -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org