[Users] Wrong email sender

Richard lists-claws at listmail.innovate.net
Mon Jul 11 23:59:24 UTC 2022



> Date: Monday, July 11, 2022 20:34:14 -0300
> From: "J. Paul Bissonnette" <jpaulb at eastlink.ca>
>
> On Mon, 11 Jul 2022 22:19:21 -0000
> Paul <paul at claws-mail.org> wrote:
> 
>> On Mon, 11 Jul 2022 17:07:21 -0300
>> "J. Paul Bissonnette" <jpaulb at eastlink.ca> wrote: 
>> 
>> > I received an email to day
>> > Subject: Your Order has been shipped.
>> > Sender: Batterybuyers.com Ltd
>> > 
>> > When I opened it, it was from a different sender
>> > tracking at shipstation.com
>> > 
>> > This has happened a number of times before. Most of them seem
>> > seem to have been with this sender. tracking at shipstation.com
>> > 
>> > Is this a glitch in Clawsmail or is it something else?
>> 
>> It's something else.
>> 
>> You are confusing the Sender Name and the Sender Email Address.
>> They are different things. For example, the email you sent is from
>> "J. Paul Bissonnette" (the Sender Name) and jpaulb at eastlink.ca
>> (the Sender Email Address).
>> 
>> In Claws Mail you can configure what is displayed in the Message
>> List: /Preferences/Configuration/Preferences/Display/Summaries, on
>> the 'Message list' tab see the 'Displayed in From column' choices.
>> 
>> with regards
>> 
>> Paul
> 
> I thought that at first so.
> 
> The From column shows Batterybuyers.com Ltd
> 
> When I open the email the From reads
> Ural Motorcycles<tracking at shipstation.com>
> tracking at shipstation.com is sending the email for  Ural 
> 
> Their actual email is orders at imz-ural.com
> 
> Batterybuyers.com Ltd is an entirely different business.
> 
> I check this email in Thunderbird and the correspondent as they
> call it there is Ural Motorcycles.
> 
> I have had this happen a few times since I installed Linux Mint.
> 

You'll need to provide the message headers so that we can see more
precisely what may be going on.




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