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equaeghe · 31 Mar 2017, 11:14 PM

Hi,

In the conversation list view, FastMail often abbreviates names of people involved in the conversation. For example, a conversation between John Doe, Jane Doe and Fritz Frankenstein would list “John D, Jane D, Fritz F”.

I am interested in knowing which other mail clients have such a feature, and then how it is implemented. For example, I know GMail does something similar, both only lists the first names, so “John, Jane, Fritz”.

Goal: to convince a company not stop including organizational stuff after the name, in order not to confuse parsing algorithms in clients supporting this feature. (The company uses the format John Doe - Accounting, Jane Doe - Business, Fritz Frankenstein - Complaints, resulting in “John A, Jane B, Fritz C” in FastMail's interface.)

Thanks,

Erik

P.S.:
* Feel free to give other reasons not to add such info after the name in the From/To/Cc headers.
* I've already contacted FM with suggestions for making their algorithm more robust against such things.

31 Mar 2017, 11:14 PM	#1
equaeghe Junior Member Join Date: Apr 2007 Posts: 23	Mail clients with name abbreviation in conversation list view Hi, In the conversation list view, FastMail often abbreviates names of people involved in the conversation. For example, a conversation between John Doe, Jane Doe and Fritz Frankenstein would list “John D, Jane D, Fritz F”. I am interested in knowing which other mail clients have such a feature, and then how it is implemented. For example, I know GMail does something similar, both only lists the first names, so “John, Jane, Fritz”. Goal: to convince a company not stop including organizational stuff after the name, in order not to confuse parsing algorithms in clients supporting this feature. (The company uses the format John Doe - Accounting, Jane Doe - Business, Fritz Frankenstein - Complaints, resulting in “John A, Jane B, Fritz C” in FastMail's interface.) Thanks, Erik P.S.: * Feel free to give other reasons not to add such info after the name in the From/To/Cc headers. * I've already contacted FM with suggestions for making their algorithm more robust against such things.