Yes, I think it is a Thunderbird “feature”, and something to do with the address book, or perhaps message display options, but how to control it escapes me. I can indeed see my name on my message (to which you’re replying here) in the Inbox on this iPad, but that’s only ephemeral. I expect it to become “chat forum” when I read it into tbird later on. (I retain emails on the laptop rather than TalkTalk’s server.)
I’m sure you came up with a solution a year or two back, but I can’t find it; so much for keeping old emails! Not the end of the world anyway, Cheers Mike Sent from my iPad > On 14 May 2019, at 14:22, chris burke <[email protected]> wrote: > > I don't see this problem using Gmail. > > Is the Tbird behaviour consistent? It seems that Skip and Pascal were > anonymized, but is this always the case? If so, check your address book > entries for them. > > Also, is it possible to customize the "Correspondents" column in Tbird, so > as to force showing the "From" address for the forums? > > On Tue, May 14, 2019 at 1:42 AM 'Mike Day' via Chat <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Sorry to ask this again - Chris set me right some time ago, but I can't >> find his advice, nor can I remember how to show myself and others, such >> as Skip Cave, I think, by name rather than as "Programming Forum", both >> in the "Correspondents" column in Mozilla Thunderbird's list of emails, >> and, in an individual message window, the names shown as From and To. >> >> I don't know if this is a feature of other email support software - I've >> always favoured T/Bird. >> >> This isn't (only!) a matter of vanity - it's a pain looking at a stream >> of messages listed by thread and looking for a particular person's >> contribution. >> >> For example, in RE Boss's recent thread on "seqfan problem", all >> contributors' names except mine are displayed, Boss, Hui, Alvord et al, >> but I'm anonymous, so not too difficult. However, in Skip Cave's thread >> "Largest & Smallest", both he and I are anonymous, while Roger & Nollaig >> are there by name. As for Piet de Jong's thread, "Passing on" monad/dyad >> information, I have no idea who commented: " Cliff's answer is helpful >> IMO," >> >> I think the answer might be something to do with the "Address Book" but >> can't remember. It's probably thought to be intuitive, but it beats >> me! J's easy by comparison... >> >> Thanks, >> >> Mike >> >> >> >> >> --- >> This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. >> https://www.avast.com/antivirus >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm >> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
