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Author: Didier Kryn
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To: dng
Subject: Re: [DNG] dng is masking the sender's name
Le 05/11/2025 à 08:56, Marjorie Roome via Dng a écrit :
> Hi,
>
> On 4 September 2025 10:33:34 BST, Didier Kryn<kryn@???> wrote:
>> Le 04/09/2025 à 00:12, Nick via Dng a écrit :
>>> On 03-09-2025 20:28, tempforever wrote:
>>>> disparage.solvency678@??? wrote:
>>>>> I use mutt, with a very personal and crafted configuration. I can see
>>>>> the exact header of all the mails. Most of the From headers look like
>>>>> this:
>>>>>
>>>>>>> From: Pontus Goffe via Dng<dng@???>
>>>>> So, the name is there, but the address is masked. I think this is
>>>>> nothing special about the dng list: most lists do this today, to avoid
>>>>> issues with DKIM and DMARC.
>>>>>
>>>>> Because Didier writes he can't even see the names, I suspect this is a
>>>>> configuration issue with this MUA; likely the MUA needs to be told to
>>>>> prefer the real name "Pontus Goffe" and hide the "via" part.
>>>>>
>>>> I suspect this is something that your mail client may be doing.
>>>> The email headers on yours, for example, include the following
>>>>
>>>> From:disparage.solvency678@???
>>>> To:dng@???
>>>> Sender: "Dng"<dng-bounces@???>
>>>>
>>>> It appears that your client is displaying the "Sender" in place of "From"
>>>>
>>> With Thunderbird you can choose which columns are shown (the most right item is the column picker). If you choose From or Correspondents then you see the actual sender. If you choose Recipient you will seedng@???
>>
>>     I can see some senders, eg disparage, Alexander Bochmann, tempforever, onefang, Steve Litt, aitor_czr, Hendrik Boom, tito, Marin Ivanov, Thomas Torcz, but most others aredng@??? . Some of the names I can see are in my address-book, but not all, therefore it is not related to the address-book.
>>
>>     But, as from a few days ago, even my own emails now show up as coming fromdng@???.
>>
>> --     Didier
> I'm using K9 mail as my mail client on Android.
> About half of the list emails on this topic show the originator's email address, including Didier's, the others showdng@???, so it doesn't seem to be a recipient client setting.
> On K9 I choose to display the email address rather than the name because bad actors often spoof the name.
>

    Funny: I'm also using K9 on Android.

    Now regarding Thunderbird on my Linux box, I've noticed that, when
I am the author of a mail, Thunderbird displays the destination instead
of the sender, but with a little arrow at the left of the destination,
meaning *I* am the sender. This is what happens with Dng; it just took
me some time to notice this arrow, which is very thin.

    I don't think this is something which can be tuned, but I can live
with it.

    Thank-you very much for investigating that far.

--     Didier