[MlMt] Relaxing the definition of a "correspondent" to deal with certain mailing lists.

[Eric Sharakan]

Hi, I'm not sure this will address your problem, but there is a 
preference to at least disable the skull spoof warning indication:

defaults write com.freron.MailMate MmNospoofSymbolDisabled -bool YES

-Eric

On 31 Oct 2019, at 1:17, Scott wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I've recently been making increased use of the View -> Layout -> 
> Correspondence way of viewing mail in MailMate as the extra panel 
> provides some great context as to previous conversations with the same 
> person/email address.
>
> However, like no doubt many of you, I'm a member of many mailing 
> lists, as well as ticketing systems, which try to regularise email 
> addresses for all sent mail to be from the mailing list itself 
> (usually to avoid things like SPF/DMARC/DKIM/etc blocks).
>
> This means that MailMate does its skull-insertion to highlight that 
> the email address appears potentially inconsistent.
>
> For example:
>
> From: "username at hotmail.com" <email-list at company.net>
>
> And on MailMate, the first @ is the skull.
>
> The problem is that this also seems to break the Correspondence view.  
> Either I get no results, or, I get a plethora of results for 
> email-list at company.net, or, weirdly, something in between.
>
> What I don't get is what I get in this view when the email is merely:
>
> From:  "Jayne Q. Rhubarb" <rhubarb at turnips.net>
>
> What I would like is for MailMate to act a bit more like Mail.app in 
> this regard?  It seems to be able to recognise "conversations" based 
> upon the combination of the "friendly name" and the <> proper address.
>
> Is there a way to do this in MailMate?  Some way to see the whole From 
> header as the thing to base a correspondent's identity on?
>
> Or is there another solution I've not thought of here (that doesn't 
> require me changing every mailing list and ticketing system on the 
> planet to suit my needs)?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Scott
>
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