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Re: [Mutt] #3050: Mutt sometimes changes the order of realname and



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

Changes (by pdmef):

  * priority:  major => minor
  * component:  mutt => display

Comment:

 This is a known feature and works like this for years. This feature is
 called "exact address" and is a compile-time feature, look for
 EXACT_ADDRESS in the output of 'mutt -v'.

 The reason this is a compile-time option is that it wastes lots of memory
 and is in general not useful. Mutt needs to decode the From: header into
 name and address to check e.g. for your alternate addresses, index
 display, patterns etc.

 For the pager, it generates a From: header out of this internal
 representation. In order to display the original header, mutt needs to
 keep the full original line around in addition to the decoded one.

 To solve this problem, you can pipe the message through "less" to see its
 raw contents.

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Ticket URL: <http://dev.mutt.org/trac/ticket/3050#comment:2>