Is there a way to have your inbox display an email sender's email address in the From column instead of their name.
Is there a way to have your inbox display an email sender's email address in the From column instead of their name.
What appears in the From field is controlled by the sender and not the receiver. -- Brian Tillman [MVP-Outlook]
1."Display Name" instead of sender's address in Junkmail?
Hello, In spam filters I can't find any way to add the "Diplay Name" of a sender to my junk mail folder to permanently delete it. As example. I receive 4 or 5 pieces a day from: "Display Name" "At Home Typers" when in fact "At Home Typers" is only the Display Name, not the actual senders e-mail address. I would like to be able to have "At Home Typers" deleted everytime, regarless of who the sender is, but it doesn't seem possible. If there is a way around this it would be very helpful to know. Thanks for your help. Lou XXXX@XXXXX.COM
2.Display real sender address as in mail headers, instead of full name from address book
Is there a way to make Outlook display the sender's name as it occurs in a mail's FROM header, instead of looking up the address in the adress book and displaying the full name it finds there (if it exists there)? I'm using Outlook 2003 to retrieve mails from two sources: an Exchange server for all 'normal' internal and internet mail, and a POP server that receives mails that are automatically generated by software running on machines spread across a WAN. The software sends mails with sender addresses similar to this in the "From" header: "source 1" < XXXX@XXXXX.COM > "source 2" < XXXX@XXXXX.COM > "source 3" < XXXX@XXXXX.COM > "source 4" < XXXX@XXXXX.COM > The address is always my exchange address (or actually an alias for it that was entered in my domain account properties). Changing that is not really an option, because the mails go to several recipients, and if someone replies to one of them the reply should arrive in my mailbox. Outlook always displays my full name as sender like it occurs in the exchange address book (despite the fact that the mails don't arrive through nor are ever stored in Exchange), which sometimes makes it hard to determine from which machine (or application) the mail really comes. Instead of my name, I want it to display the sender name as it is in the mail headers, i.e. "source 1", "source 2" etc., but without forcing me to change the actual mail address that's being used. Is there a way to accomplish this?
3.Organize Inbox with email address instead of Display name
I have an Outlook installation that pulls two different email boxes. I want to color the messages according to the email box it pulled from. For example, XXXX@XXXXX.COM is Red and XXXX@XXXXX.COM is Green. It works ok when the To value is that actual email address but when it comes in as the Display Name of John Doe it doesn't look at the email address. The Display name John Doe could be either address. How do I get the rule to always look at the email address and ignore the Display Name field?
4.inbox emails show my name instead of sender name
When I opened outlook today, all of my inbox emails only display my name or the recipients name instead of the senders name, and I have to open the email to see who it is from. How can I change this to display the senders name on my incoming mail? -- Norma
5.my name appears instead of the sender's, but only in my inbox
I have Outlook 2003 and all of a sudden, any incoming email that enters my Inbox, displays only who the email is to (usually me) instead of who it's from. For example: if I receive an email from my friend Tim Highfield, in the Inbox column, there should be a message header which has the envelope icon and "Tim Highfield" next to it, with the subject underneath, and the date on the far right. But instead of "Tim Highfield", my name appears instead! Or more precisely, the name of the person Tim sent it to, namely me. But what is equally weird is that when I move the message into another folder, it then does what it's supposed to do and puts Tim's name (the sender's name) at the top instead of mine. I've tried running the "Detect and Repair" feature under "Help", running the SCANPST.EXE program on the Outlook.pst file, and adjusted the "Arranged by" feature in Outlook every which way (to my knowledge); all without success. I've got the latest version Norton Antivirus too and have performed a full system scan, also without success. I'm not a novice computer user, but not a computer science graduate, so I figure there might be something technical I'm not aware of that's gone pear shaped. Just to see whether it was just Outlook, I ran Outlook Express and that worked fine. Has anyone come across this problem before? What did you do about it? I'd greatly appreciate any suggestions not already mentioned. Kind regards Arron
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