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[Mutt] #3050: Mutt sometimes changes the order of realname and address when displaying "From: " headers

#3050: Mutt sometimes changes the order of realname and address when displaying
"From: " headers

 If a message contains a "From: " header like this:

   From: user@xxxxxxxxxxx (Real Name)

 (i.e. with realname in parenthesis)

 Mutt displays the "From: " line like this (in the index and message view):

   From: Real Name <user@xxxxxxxxxxx>

 I suspect that using parentheses is not RFC-compliant, and mutt does its
 best to display the header line in a better way, but doing so may confuse
 the user who is trying to write a filter expression to match the From:
 header (e.g. a procmail rule) and relies on what mutt displays.

 Maybe it would be useful to let the user disable this behaviour via a
 configuration option (e.g. displaying the header "as is").

 A couple of notes:
  - I'm using Mutt 1.5.17+20080114 Debian package
  - I didn't check if this happens also for other headers, only noticed in
 "From: "

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Ticket URL: <http://dev.mutt.org/trac/ticket/3050>