[sup-devel] Person.from_address and Contacts (or John.Smith@example.com)

[Gregor Hoffleit <gregor@hoffleit.de>]

I have quite a few contacts that send their mails without a display
name, i.e. something like "From: John.Smith@example.com".

Sup does some magic (in Person.from_address) to derive something like a
display name from the local-part of the e-mail address. That's fine so
far.

But, if the person is in my list of contacts, I want Sup to show the
display name definied in the contacts entry. In the above case, that
might be "John Smith" or "John E. Smith" or whatever. Instead, Sup
sticks to the display name derived from the local part, "john.smith".

It's especially odd in the detailed header view of the thread-view-mode,
where Sup resolves and shows the alias, but still sticks to the derived
display name:

    From: john.smith <john.smith@example.com> (Johnny Boy)


The obvious place to start a fix would be Person.from_address, where the
(display) name, if missing, is derived from the email address.

I wanted to modify Person.from_address in order to use, in the case of
an empty display name, the ContactManager, to look up any alias in the
contact list, but somehow I didn't succeed integrating ContactManager in
person.rb.

Any better idea? Should I file a bug about this?

Regards,
    Gregor Hoffleit
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