Question about Thunderbird

[jd1008]

On 10/11/2014 07:19 PM, Ed Greshko wrote:
> 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.
>
>
I examined the address of the actual vendor I have in contacts.
The display field is not as TB displayed it.