gHacks Technology News | Latest Tech News, Software And Tutorials » auto address cleaner http://www.ghacks.net A technology news blog covering software, mobile phones, gadgets, security, the Internet and other relevant areas. Sat, 11 Feb 2012 17:32:23 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Thunderbird Email Address Auto Cleanerhttp://www.ghacks.net/2009/07/30/thunderbird-email-address-auto-cleaner/ http://www.ghacks.net/2009/07/30/thunderbird-email-address-auto-cleaner/#comments Thu, 30 Jul 2009 15:33:23 +0000 Martin Brinkmann http://www.ghacks.net/?p=14905 mozilla thunderbirdDid you know that there is a difference between sending emails to recipients that are in the email address book and those that are not. The display name is one of the form fields that can be filled out in the email clients address book. This display name will be send along with the email address to recipients in the to, cc and bcc fields. Email recipients in Thunderbird see the display name in the to field and the email address when hovering over the display name in the status bar.

Sending the display name can be problematic because of several reasons. One is that it is up to the account owner to pick a display name which can sometimes be not appropriate to share with the recipient. Another problem is that it can lead to encoding problems on the recipients side as well.

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The Thunderbird extension Address Auto Cleaner takes care of the issue by removing the display name from emails that get send out from the desktop email client. It will automatically remove the display name from the to, cc and bcc fields in Thunderbird before the email is send to the recipients.

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