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From: Jon on 10 May 2010 19:04
My inbox shows my name on all emails instead of the name of the sender. I
have right clicked and clicked sender in 'arrange by' area but this has not
converted all the emails to show the sender. Any ideas out there would be
appreciated.
From: VanguardLH on 10 May 2010 19:24
Jon wrote:

> My inbox shows my name on all emails instead of the name of the sender. I
> have right clicked and clicked sender in 'arrange by' area but this has not
> converted all the emails to show the sender. Any ideas out there would be
> appreciated.

Right-click on the column header, select Field Chooser, drag off the "To"
column (since you know it got sent to you because you received it), and drag
the From header from Field Chooser to where you want it to appear in the
column headers.

You might want to keep the "To" column displayed to see if *you* were
specifically addressed in an e-mail. The To and Cc headers (and the Bcc
header shown to the sender in the UI for their e-mail client) are NOT used
to specify the recipients of an e-mail. The sender's email client compiles
an aggregate list of recipients from those *fields* shown in the UI and
sends a RCPT-TO command to their sending mail server. The mail server
doesn't give a gnat's fart about the To or Cc headers added inside the
e-mail since that is sent during the DATA command. The server only uses the
RCPT-TO commands that it got from the client (and how list servers work
since a separate list of recipients is used to issue the RCPT-TO commands
for the same message sent to all of them). The recipient never gets to see
the list of RCPT-TO commands between the sender's e-mail client and the
sender's sending mail server. So it is possible that someone sends you an
e-mail, you received it, but you were never identified in either the To or
Cc headers (and, of course, you'll never see what they specified in the Bcc
*field* shown in their e-mail client).

I use a rule to junk any e-mails where my e-mail address is not included in
either the To or Cc headers. This means anyone sending me a Bcc copy will
get their e-mail junked by my rule. The only folks that ever Bcc me are
those sending out spam. If they are sending out a subscribed newsletter
then they should be using a listserver or mailing program that sends a
separate copy to each recipient (similar to MailMerge when using Word with
Outlook).

If you don't want the To field displayed (and replace it with the From
field) then you might want to add the E-mail Account field if you have more
than one account defined in Outlook. Then you can handily see through which
account an e-mail was delivered to you.
From: Brian Tillman [MVP-Outlook] on 11 May 2010 08:27
"Jon" <Jon(a)discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:ECDECCE6-36CE-4953-8766-50E8DED45C9F(a)microsoft.com...

> My inbox shows my name on all emails instead of the name of the sender. I
> have right clicked and clicked sender in 'arrange by' area but this has not
> converted all the emails to show the sender. Any ideas out there would be
> appreciated.

Use the Messages view instead of the Sent To. If you are using the Messages
view, reset it. Exactly how is version-specific and you decided to keep your
version of Outlook a secret, so you'll need to figure out how on your own.
--
Brian Tillman [MVP-Outlook]

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