On 27 Feb 2018, at 19:05, Randall Gellens wrote:
On 20 Feb 2018, at 1:58, Benny Kjær Nielsen wrote:
On a more esoteric note, it would be nice if MM could normalize
recipients names that are in annoying Outlook format, e.g., change
“Bozo, Fred” <fred.b...@example.com>
To
Fred Bozo <fred.b...@example.com>
MailMate cannot do this automatically. It's extremely hard
(impossible?) to correctly identify the various parts of a
“name”. Also, you have to assume that if your correspondent uses
this format then it's probably what they prefer to see when they get
a reply.
I disagree with this; I think in almost all cases, the recipient’s
client dictates how names are formatted. E.g., I think Outlook
imposes the quote-last-comma-first-quote format.
That might be true, but they can only do that if they know what the last
name and the first name is -- which they would usually only know if the
user has specifically added the name to an address book.
I'm a bit surprised if Outlook takes an incoming message, analyzes it's
“From” header, and then reorder its parts to a different format. It
still think this is very hard to get right.
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.
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.
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.
--
Benny
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