Question about Thunderbird

[Ed Greshko]

On 10/12/14 09:30, jd1008 wrote:
>
> 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.
>
>
Without any more detail, everything will be a guess.

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