[bug] [emacs] notmuch-show: names not shown on some mailing lists

Jani Nikula jani at nikula.org
Sat Oct 14 05:47:08 PDT 2017


On Tue, 10 Oct 2017, William Casarin <jb55 at jb55.com> wrote:
> Hey there,
>
> Here's something I've noticed in some mailing list threads in notmuch-show:
>
>   https://jb55.com/s/81d7c740ef60984d.png
>
> It doesn't look like it is showing the correct name.
> Looking at the raw message, the From line looks like this:
>
>   From: Some Person via Some-mailinglist
>     <somemailinglist at lists.linuxfoundation.org>
>   Reply-To: Some Person <someperson at gmail.com>
>
> Any way to handle these situations gracefully? Somehow show
> `Some Person` instead of `somemailinglist at lists.linuxfoundation.org`?

The information comes from the cli. Can you reproduce this using some
notmuch show --format=sexp --body=false query, perhaps on just one of
the messages?

BR,
Jani.


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