On Tue, 9 Nov 2010 10:53:14 -0500, david.mackint...@xdroop.com wrote: > You know how when you forward or reply to an Exchange message, the > message body frequently doesn't carry forward the email addresses > that your client knows about? You get a useless "header" like this:
Best cases are when they are from people that should *know* that "Larry" is very unlikely to be in *my* addressbook, but still top-post "Would you be so kind to provide Larry with the required information please?" Yeah sure, and how would I do that? Happens sooooo often. OE users just don't learn > From: Matt McUser [mailto:mmu...@someplace.com] > Sent: Wednesday, October 27, 2010 10:08 AM > To: Dave Mackintosh > Cc: Larry; Curly; m...@3stoogesenterprises.local > Subject: RE: whos on 1st? > > In this case, my, Larry, and Curly's addresses are hidden here > because my outlook has them listed in one of my Address books (or the > GAL) with a "Display As" value. > > ...which is fine, unless someone who doesn't have Larry's address in > one of their books wants to send him an email. > > He wants to know, how does he figure out Larry's email address in > this scenario. And I think the answer is you can't because that's > how Outlook rolls, sucka -- and even if it CAN be fixed, it would > have to be fixed on the Outlooks of everyone else for that fix to be > worth anything. > > Does Mutt run on Windows yet? :) (and yes, that *still* wouldn't > fix his problem, because everyone else's Outlook would still be in > the default you-don't-need-to-know-that mode!) > -- H.Merijn Brand http://tux.nl Perl Monger http://amsterdam.pm.org/ using 5.00307 through 5.12 and porting perl5.13.x on HP-UX 10.20, 11.00, 11.11, 11.23 and 11.31, OpenSuSE 10.1, 11.0 .. 11.3 and AIX 5.2 and 5.3. http://mirrors.develooper.com/hpux/ http://www.test-smoke.org/ http://qa.perl.org http://www.goldmark.org/jeff/stupid-disclaimers/
