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Display of From Header Field

#1962

Hi Benny,

Some messages are showing unusual values in the From column of the mail mailbox viewer. They mostly seem to be ones with the same surname as me. For example, I have received an email where the 'From:' field in the header (when viewed with Show Raw Message) is M M Yates <____@___.com>. In the viewer, it shows up as just Yates. The issue is the same for many messages received from a Yates. Also, my sent messages just show Yates, even though the IMAP entry has 'D Yates' as the name.

I discovered the from.cache file in ~/Library/Application\ Support/MailMate/Database.noindex/Headers/ but could not tell whether there was something wrong with the file.

Any suggestions? I am running version r5443 and have over 70'000 messages, so if I can avoid re-downloading everything from the server, that would be great.

Many thanks.

Reported by D Yates · March 6th, 2018 @ 09:23 AM

State: fixreleased
Milestone: none
Assigned to: benny benny

Activity

  1. benny
    benny
    • State changed from new to fixcommitted

    Try the latest test release: Hold down ⌥ when clicking “Check Now” in the Software Update preferences pane. I think this is a symptom of an already fixed bug (related to single letters in name parts of address headers).

    March 6th, 2018 @ 10:55 AM

  2. D Yates
    D Yates

    That fixed it for email I have received, although not for the ones that I have sent. I presume the reason is that the bug populated the From: header of my outgoing emails with the wrong name, and hence can't be retroactively fixed. Is that correct?

    Many thanks.

    March 6th, 2018 @ 11:13 AM

  3. benny
    benny

    Yes, I'm sorry about that!

    March 6th, 2018 @ 11:29 AM

  4. benny
    benny
    • State changed from fixcommitted to fixreleased

    March 13th, 2018 @ 12:54 PM

  5. benny
    benny

    December 25th, 2024 @ 04:11 PM

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