On 5 Mar 2018, at 5:25, Randall Gellens wrote:
MailMate could display the names differently (without altering them
when replying/forwarding), but I really mean it when I write that
it's extremely hard to do this reliably :) As as simple example,
someone might use this: "PhD Nielsen, Benny" and it would become
"Benny PhD Nielsen".
I agree it’s likely impossible to have an algorithm that always
does the correct thing. However, one that usually does the correct
thing is good enough.
The problem is that it would be very annoying when it fails. Then the
user has to manually edit the header to get it right.
No, the user can ignore it, because it likely won’t be any worse
than doing nothing.
If MailMate reorders something wrongly and then puts that in an outgoing
message then I think it's worse than doing nothing. But again, if we are
only talking about how MailMate displays names then it's not a problem.
Only the user of MailMate is affected when/if it fails.
As an aside, this “Outlook name conversion” was one of my
favorite features of Mac Eudora, because it made it much easier to
read the recipient lists.
Ah, displaying recipients is a different story. I was mainly thinking
of composing messages. In this case, it would be ok if it fails some
times.
Yes, exactly, although Eudora also used the modified form when sending
replies, which was nice.
I wouldn't be comfortable with that unless the user has verified it,
e.g., by adding the correspondent to the address book (Contacts).
I don't have time right now, but I could probably make a custom file
for you which would replace the default “To” column with a
“Last, First” variant.
I wonder if an option to have a regex for name alteration might be a
workable approach? Leave it to the user to devise a good regex.
That's kind of how it already works. It's low-level though, both how to
redefine a message list column and how to change the regex for finding
first/last name. Would you like me to describe how this is done? (You
might prefer to just hope that it'll be easier to customize some day.)
--
Benny
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