I just want to see if i fixed my thunderbird correct

John Landmesser wrote

I just want to see if i fixed my thunderbird correct

Yeah .., works again .. hope i never have this issue again: "From" and "to" showed? "John Landmesser" because there was a wrong entry in my thunderbird address book :-(

Yes, thunderbird had some recent update messing with that.. Argh.

I had to disable showing the name from the address-book.

My wrong entry was :

"John Landmesser"

I deleted that and this issue was gone. Googled a lot to find this hint :-(

That entry was probably added automatically. If you look at your own post as received on the list, it contains:

From: Martin Frb via lazarus
Reply-To: Lazarus mailing list
Cc: Martin Frb
To: John Landmesser via lazarus

The last entry, the "TO:" gets automatically added and is the one you deleted. It probably will get added again, unless you change a setting.

Until now it works ... we'll see what happens next.?? I still hope its working as before ...

test

I identified 2 settings:

Turn OFF: "Show only display name for people in my address book" ?=> this will make sure you see the name as set by the mailing list.

Alternatively delete the address book entry, **AND**

Turn OFF "Automatically add outgoing email addresses to my" ....

However, if you only turn off the first, then you still collect the address => with the name of whomever you reply first. To avoid that, create an address book entry for the email **AND** make sure it has a name / lastname.

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Still, even with that

When hitting reply, it appears the name of the person (as set by the mail list) is written to the TO: header.

Before I sent the "test" mail, I changed my address book. The entry for has now set its name/lastname set to "lazarus"
I then replied (the reply again has John in the TO: header) But I checked afterwards: the entry in my address book still has the name "lazarus"
And my address book does NOT have any entry for John.

So that bit, I can't currently help.

Le 28/10/2024 ? 20:46, Carlos E. R. via lazarus a ?crit?:

The last entry, the "TO:" gets automatically added and is the one you deleted. It probably will get added again, unless you change a setting.

The funny thing is that? it's not automatically you own label.

For me, I had the same behaviour but with "J. Gareth Moreton" on fpc-devel list.

Following the advice of Martin I deleted it from the adress-book and now it's ok.

Martin Frb wrote

test

You can have collected addresses added to the collected addresses address book, instead of your main one you edit manually.

And when replying to the list, hit the reply to list button.

Martin Frb wrote

Still, even with that When hitting reply, it appears the name of the person (as set by the mail list) is written to the TO: header.

You should NOT hit reply when answering to a mailinglist. You should hit "Reply List" instead.
Then there is no name attached to the lazarus-list-address.

Hitting Reply is bad practice for a mailinglist. I have lists where the From is actually the email-address of the actual sender. Using Reply will only reply to that sender and not to the list. This is a common mistake users make and answers often don't get back to the mailing list. Luckily this is not the case for this mailinglist.

Grtz,
Rik
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