[MlMt] "Correspondent" column shows wrong name

[Shoshanna Green]

On 24 Feb 2015, at 11:23, Benny Kjær Nielsen wrote:

> On 23 Feb 2015, at 23:22, Shoshanna Green wrote:
>
>> I just saw this (under r5063): Fred sent an email to Wilma, and also 
>> cc:ed me and Barney. I'd expect the name shown in my Correspondent 
>> column to be Fred, since he's the person writing to me (and others), 
>> but instead it's Wilma. But Wilma isn't my correspondent; she hasn't 
>> said anything to me, nor I to her.
>
> Do you still see this with r5066?

Yes and no! I scanned through a whole bunch of messages, and I can 
narrow the problem down. In the one I originally saw, in which I'm one 
of many Cc:s and the Correspondent column is showing the name of the 
sole To: addressee, the From: header shows a bare email address, with no 
name. In this case, I'd expect that email address to be shown in the 
Correspondent column, but instead I guess MailMate is insisting on a 
name, and falling back on the next header in line, showing the name of 
the sole To: addressee, when it can't find one for the sender.

I went digging to find other messages whose From: header is a bare email 
address. One has me as the sole To: addressee and also has a score of 
Cc: addressees, and the Correspondent column wrongly shows the name of 
the first-listed Cc: addressee when it should show the email address of 
the sender. Another has several To: addressees and several Cc: addresses 
(I'm cc:ed), and the Correspondent column wrongly shows the name of the 
first-listed To: addressee.

Some other messages correctly show the sender's bare email address in 
the Correspondent column. In one case I'm the only To: addressee and 
there are no Cc:s. In another I'm one of several To: addressees (and I 
forgot to note whether there were any Cc:s, sorry).

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Shoshanna Green
shoshannag at gmail.com