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>