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Re: I Have Become an "Undisclose Recipient"

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Frank Miller wrote:
>>> Check the display settings:
>>> Settings - General - Reading & Display:
>>> "Show only display name for people in my address book"

>> Thanks Frank!  I don't know how many times I must have gone thru the
>> settings and missed that.

> It's a stupid default setting for people who like to "chat".
> I've never seen a reason to use it. The developers should set the default
> to 'false' and bury that setting in the config editor.
> 
> Add this line to your user.js to prevent that in the future:
> user_pref("mail.showCondensedAddresses", false);

I agree that it's stupid, although it's not as bad as Outlook, where 
Microsoft makes it unreasonably difficult to derive a real address from 
a displayed name.

Apparently, the assumption is that a real address is "unfriendly" (and 
perhaps something that is disruptive for something like a mail merge), 
but it doesn't account for the possibility contacts that have more than 
one address, or people who have the same name.

I've had showCondensedAddresses set to false for years (preferences 
editor is fine, no need to force permanence to the user.js file, unless 
you want to do the entry by hand).

But a good reminder to share that with the users I support (where all of 
us have addresses on more than one domain, plus an external address).

Smith

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I Have Become an "Undisclose Recipient" croy <croy@spam.invalid.net> - 2025-04-27 11:00 -0700
  Re: I Have Become an "Undisclose Recipient" Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> - 2025-04-27 19:07 +0100
  Re: I Have Become an "Undisclose Recipient" "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-04-27 20:24 +0200
  Re: I Have Become an "Undisclose Recipient" "David E. Ross" <nobody@nowhere.invalid> - 2025-04-27 13:00 -0700
  Re: I Have Become an "Undisclose Recipient" Laughing Policeman <invalid@invalid.net> - 2025-04-27 20:36 +0000
  Re: I Have Become an "Undisclose Recipient" VanguardLH <V@nguard.LH> - 2025-04-27 22:12 -0500
  Re: I Have Become an "Undisclose Recipient" croy <croy@spam.invalid.net> - 2025-04-28 11:12 -0700
    Re: I Have Become an "Undisclose Recipient" Frank Miller <miller@posteo.ee> - 2025-04-28 20:54 +0200
      Re: I Have Become an "Undisclose Recipient" croy <croy@spam.invalid.net> - 2025-04-28 16:52 -0700
        Re: I Have Become an "Undisclose Recipient" Frank Miller <miller@posteo.ee> - 2025-04-29 03:45 +0200
          Re: I Have Become an "Undisclose Recipient" NFN Smith <worldoff9908@gmail.com> - 2025-04-30 12:04 -0700

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