Subject: Addressbooks UI change recommendation

From: Timothy J Luoma <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 15 Apr 1999 01:48:57 -0400

There are 3 columns for an Address Book

Nickname	Name			Address
joe		"Schmo, Joe"		"Joe Schmo" <[email-masked]>

bill		"Wild, Bill"		[email-masked]

NOW when you "Compose To" <joe> it will come up as "To:"

"Schmo, Joe" <[email-masked]>

I suggest that this is not preferable (or should be optional)

The "Address" field, if added using 'Take' shows the person's name as they  
want it to show up (how they have configured their mail).

Now the addressbook is sorted by "NAME" so I put those names as LAST, FIRST

But when I compose a message, I want it as the 'Address' shows (that is,  
after all the ADDRESS I told PINE to use!)

Now in the case of 'bill', well he doesn't have a name in his Address field,  
so adding 'Wild, Bill <[email-masked]>' doesn't bother me in that situation.

I would like an option to change the other behavior though... I want to be  
able to have my mailbox sorted by LAST, FIRST by my messages to go out in the  
more friendly FIRST LAST (or whatever I have in the ADDRESS column... IFF  
there is only an address in the ADDRESS column and no additional info, then  
add the name

TjL

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From: Steve Hubert <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 15 Apr 1999 09:24:26 -0700 (PDT)

It's because you have quotes around the names. If the name was just

joe           Schmo, Joe           Joe Schmo <[email-masked]>

then the sort would be on the letter S and the outgoing mail would look
like Joe Schmo. If you add quotes that tells pine that you really want the
comma to be a literal comma, like

              "Joe Schmo, PhD."

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Steve Hubert <[email-masked]>
Networks and Distributed Computing, Univ. of Washington, Seattle