Question about Thunderbird

[Ed Greshko]

On 10/12/14 08:55, jd1008 wrote:
> Running current TB thunderbird-31.1.1-1.fc20.x86_64
>
> Received a message from a vendor I deal with, via paypal.
> The message content was alright as I expected it to be.
>
> However, TB displayed the From field as some other name,
> other than <vendor's name> via paypal
> which is usually how invoices come to me from paypal.
> Except in this message (first time I see this), the from field
> is from another entity.
> I examined the full headers and I did not see the entity that
> TB claims the message was from.
>
> Does anyone have an idea how this can occur?
>

If in one of your address books you have an entry with a matching email address and the "Display" field defined then TBird will display that instead of what is in the "From:" header.


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