Mail doesn't show names from the Address Book

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Mail doesn't show names from the Address Book

When receiving emails from people who appear in my Address Book - the "From" field still shows default names set by the senders, instead of showing the names as they appear in my Address Book.
When composing a new email though - Mail does recognize the names

Is there a way to enforce mail to replace the names shown?

Thanks,
Fade.

Early 2008 MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.1)

Posted on Oct 10, 2009 5:01 AM

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Golden Shoes

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Oct 10, 2009 2:46 PM in response to FadeCreativeCombo

Greetings,

Is there a way to enforce mail to replace the names shown?

No, there is no way to do this. The "From:" field will always be exactly what is specified by the account of the person sending you the email, even if you don't have it that way in Address Book. That is perfectly normal and is valid for every email client I've ever used.

The only reason you see the name you have in Address Book when sending an email is because you sent email to that person before, so it's drawing that information from the Previous Recipient list.

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Answer 2

Oct 10, 2009 3:02 PM in response to Golden Shoes

Thanks for your answer.

Well, is there some kind of workaround, or perhaps an apple script / add-on that would add another field or something similar?

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Answer 3

Oct 10, 2009 5:26 PM in response to FadeCreativeCombo

Sorry, but there's no workaround for that. It's part of the RFC for the internet mail protocol, so unless and until the underlying structure is changed, that won't, either.

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Answer 4

Oct 10, 2009 11:25 PM in response to FadeCreativeCombo

Thanks again for your repilies.

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