Why Does Email Reply Show Full Name Instead of Address?”

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Discussion Overview

The discussion centers around why an email reply shows the sender's full name instead of their email address, particularly in the context of Yahoo email accounts. Participants explore potential reasons for this change in display, considering both technical aspects and user interface features.

Discussion Character

  • Exploratory, Technical explanation, Conceptual clarification

Main Points Raised

  • One participant notes that the sender's mail server can customize the "from" field in the email message, while the "Return-Path" field contains the actual sender's email address.
  • Another participant suggests that the change from displaying the email address to the full name may be related to the nature of the device used to send the email, indicating that the last email might not have been sent from a phone.
  • A different perspective proposes that the Yahoo email client could automatically add contacts after a certain number of interactions, which might explain the appearance of the full name.

Areas of Agreement / Disagreement

Participants present multiple competing views regarding the reasons for the change in display, and the discussion remains unresolved with no consensus on a single explanation.

Contextual Notes

Assumptions about the behavior of email clients and servers are present, but specific mechanisms or settings that govern these changes are not fully explored.

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I've sent a few emails to someone, and in their reply in my inbox, the email address would show up in the From column. But in their latest reply, their full name showed up. Why is that? I didn't add them as a contact either.
 
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The sender's mail server can put pretty much anything they want in the "from" field of the mail message, the "Return-Path" field contains the actual sender email
 
NobodySpecial said:
The sender's mail server can put pretty much anything they want in the "from" field of the mail message, the "Return-Path" field contains the actual sender email

We both have yahoo accounts. I was just wondering if there was any particular reason why it changed from the address to the full name.

Oh, I think I know. The last one looks like it wasn't sent from a phone. The others were.
 
Another possibility is that yahoo email client automatically adds them as a contact after sending/receiving so many emails from one address?
 

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