Running current TB thunderbird-31.1.1-1.fc20.x86_64
Received a message from a vendor I deal with, via paypal. The message content was alright as I expected it to be.
However, TB displayed the From field as some other name, other than <vendor's name> via paypal which is usually how invoices come to me from paypal. Except in this message (first time I see this), the from field is from another entity. I examined the full headers and I did not see the entity that TB claims the message was from.
Does anyone have an idea how this can occur?
On 12/10/14 11:55, jd1008 wrote:
Running current TB thunderbird-31.1.1-1.fc20.x86_64
Received a message from a vendor I deal with, via paypal. The message content was alright as I expected it to be.
However, TB displayed the From field as some other name, other than <vendor's name> via paypal
<ALERT ALERT Will Robinson> Suggestion: go to the vendor's web site and send them the details from within their site email system.
which is usually how invoices come to me from paypal. Except in this message (first time I see this), the from field is from another entity. I examined the full headers and I did not see the entity that TB claims the message was from.
Does anyone have an idea how this can occur?
On 10/12/14 08:55, jd1008 wrote:
Running current TB thunderbird-31.1.1-1.fc20.x86_64
Received a message from a vendor I deal with, via paypal. The message content was alright as I expected it to be.
However, TB displayed the From field as some other name, other than <vendor's name> via paypal which is usually how invoices come to me from paypal. Except in this message (first time I see this), the from field is from another entity. I examined the full headers and I did not see the entity that TB claims the message was from.
Does anyone have an idea how this can occur?
If in one of your address books you have an entry with a matching email address and the "Display" field defined then TBird will display that instead of what is in the "From:" header.
On 10/11/2014 07:19 PM, Ed Greshko wrote:
On 10/12/14 08:55, jd1008 wrote:
Running current TB thunderbird-31.1.1-1.fc20.x86_64
Received a message from a vendor I deal with, via paypal. The message content was alright as I expected it to be.
However, TB displayed the From field as some other name, other than <vendor's name> via paypal which is usually how invoices come to me from paypal. Except in this message (first time I see this), the from field is from another entity. I examined the full headers and I did not see the entity that TB claims the message was from.
Does anyone have an idea how this can occur?
If in one of your address books you have an entry with a matching email address and the "Display" field defined then TBird will display that instead of what is in the "From:" header.
I examined the address of the actual vendor I have in contacts. The display field is not as TB displayed it.
On 10/12/14 09:30, jd1008 wrote:
On 10/11/2014 07:19 PM, Ed Greshko wrote:
On 10/12/14 08:55, jd1008 wrote:
Running current TB thunderbird-31.1.1-1.fc20.x86_64
Received a message from a vendor I deal with, via paypal. The message content was alright as I expected it to be.
However, TB displayed the From field as some other name, other than <vendor's name> via paypal which is usually how invoices come to me from paypal. Except in this message (first time I see this), the from field is from another entity. I examined the full headers and I did not see the entity that TB claims the message was from.
Does anyone have an idea how this can occur?
If in one of your address books you have an entry with a matching email address and the "Display" field defined then TBird will display that instead of what is in the "From:" header.
I examined the address of the actual vendor I have in contacts. The display field is not as TB displayed it.
Without any more detail, everything will be a guess.
On 10/11/2014 07:37 PM, Ed Greshko wrote:
On 10/12/14 09:30, jd1008 wrote:
On 10/11/2014 07:19 PM, Ed Greshko wrote:
On 10/12/14 08:55, jd1008 wrote:
Running current TB thunderbird-31.1.1-1.fc20.x86_64
Received a message from a vendor I deal with, via paypal. The message content was alright as I expected it to be.
However, TB displayed the From field as some other name, other than <vendor's name> via paypal which is usually how invoices come to me from paypal. Except in this message (first time I see this), the from field is from another entity. I examined the full headers and I did not see the entity that TB claims the message was from.
Does anyone have an idea how this can occur?
If in one of your address books you have an entry with a matching email address and the "Display" field defined then TBird will display that instead of what is in the "From:" header.
I examined the address of the actual vendor I have in contacts. The display field is not as TB displayed it.
Without any more detail, everything will be a guess.
Seems like TB was at a loss what to do with the display field because of the collected contacts list. There was another vendor which was automatically entered into the collected contacts list, and it also had come from paypal. The problem is caused by paypal making the From field of all such invoice messages as coming from member@paypal.com. When the first such entry was made, the display field is left blank, so are the first and last names. So I had edited the contact by filling in the empty fields of First Name, Last Name, Display Name, so that I would know who the billing vendor was. So, when I got an invoice from the new vendor, it had in it only the email address in the From field, and TB keyed on that, and found the first contact that matched the email address member@paypal.com, and displayed that vendor's display name with the matching email address. I had no other entry in the collected list with the email address when I got this email.
So, I guess I might call and talk to paypal and inform them of this, and just perhaps they might decide to fix the From field so that the address is fully qualified (i.e. SomeName email@address).