Re: Invisible mail recipients

Mark Sawle <mark@...> wrote:

>Tim Powys-Lybbe <tim@...> wrote:
>
>> I have just received an e-mail that was displayed as being sent to me
only
>> when the sender was clearly writing to three of us.
>> 
>> Fortunately I examined the headers before sending off a correction and
>> there found:
>> 
>>   To: Tim Powys-Lybbe <tim@...>, heather.noel-smith@..., 
>>     frank@...
>>   Subject: SoG Advice - Sat 24 November
>> 
>> Is it possible for the second and third, etc recipients to be somehow
>> displayed in the normal mail window?  I could not see anything on
'Message
>> Display' choices in Preferences on this Mac.
>
>I actually thought it already did this, but looking at the code I see that
>it doesn't.  However, it appears that it will always display To if you have
>more than one identity defined, which is probably why I've always seen it.
>
>I think it'd be better if it always displayed the To header where it
>contains any address that doesn't belong to you, regardless of how many
>identities you have configured.

When a mail like this arrives, how does MP decide what value to assign to
its "Identity" attribute?  I hope it's set from the SMTP envelope-to info,
but of course that's sometimes hard to discern from the headers, with
different providers making it more or less obvious who that was.

Also someone sends you an email that's TO more than one of your own email
addresses...  I found out recently that some providers will send two copies
of such a mail (which is how I like it), and of course they differ in that
their SMTP envelope-to values are different.  I'd hope MP would see those as
having two separate identities.  But, if one's mail provider has routed both
the incoming emails into one mailbox on their server, that provider may only
send you a single copy - TO both people, and - worse - with both the
recipients listed in a singe envelople-to record.  What would MP do with
something like that, identity-wise? 


-- 
Jeremy C B Nicoll - my opinions are my own.

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