[MlMt] How to edit recipients

[Randall Gellens]

On 9 Mar 2018, at 1:22, Benny Kjær Nielsen wrote:

> On 5 Mar 2018, at 17:48, Randall Gellens wrote:
>
>>>> Yes, exactly, although Eudora also used the modified form when 
>>>> sending replies, which was nice.
>>>
>>> I wouldn't be comfortable with that unless the user has verified it, 
>>> e.g., by adding the correspondent to the address book (Contacts).
>>
>> I think if the modified name was the result of a user-set regex, and 
>> showed in the composition window for replies, then perhaps a way to 
>> visually indicate in the composition window that the name was 
>> modified with a way to revert, would be more than sufficient.
>
> That's certainly implementable, but (to be honest) I don't think you 
> should expect that any time soon.

Well, it’s not the most urgent feature for me, either.  The “Filter 
Results” summary would be more immediately helpful day-to-day.

> My thinking here is still that if your correspondent likes to send out 
> emails with “Last, First” then they likely also prefer to receive 
> them like that. I would certainly dislike if my correspondents changed 
> the formatting of my name.

I’m not aware of anyone anywhere who has ever deliberately configured 
their mail name to be quote-last-comma-first-quote.  I am aware of many 
cases where companies force it or force clients that do it.


> Note that MailMate *does* replace your own name with what you have 
> configured when receiving emails and replying to them.
>
>>> That's kind of how it already works. It's low-level though, both how 
>>> to redefine a message list column and how to change the regex for 
>>> finding first/last name. Would you like me to describe how this is 
>>> done? (You might prefer to just hope that it'll be easier to 
>>> customize some day.)
>>
>> It’s not just the column display in the mailbox, but also the 
>> message display when viewing a message.  But, yes, if that can be 
>> modified, that would be helpful.
>
> Let's take the columns first to see if it works as you would expect it 
> to. The attached file is going to crash MailMate until after the next 
> update (r5462+). I had to fix a minor issue to make the no-spoof 
> feature work with the re-ordering of first and last name.

What’s the no-spoof feature?

>
> This is where you need to save the file (you need to create the path):
>
> 	/Users/<username>/Library/Application\ 
> Support/MailMate/Resources/MmMessagesOutlineView/outlineColumns.plist