Sender header change to improve Outlook
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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GNU Mailman |
Fix Released
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Medium
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Mark Sapiro |
Bug Description
FAQ 2.3 describes problems with Outlook's ugly display of Sender "on behalf of" From, giving the example as "From <email address hidden> On behalf of <email address hidden>". But Outlook prefers to show the real name and hide the Internet address, when a real name is present. Most commonly the From would be "From: Fred Example <email address hidden>" and as a result Outlook would display "From <email address hidden> On behalf of Fred Example".
If Mailman wrote the Sender header with a real name Outlook would show the name there too. For example, if the list name (local part) were inserted, thus "Sender: listname <email address hidden>", then Outlook would display "From listname on behalf of Fred Example" which is much better in appearance and still complies with using a Sender header.
RFC 2822 allows Sender to contain a real name.
sender = "Sender:" mailbox CRLF
mailbox = name-addr / addr-spec
name-addr = [display-name] angle-addr
Changed in mailman: | |
status: | Triaged → Fix Committed |
Changed in mailman: | |
status: | Fix Committed → Fix Released |
This seems like a great idea. Why didn't someone think of this years ago?