protz/GMail-Conversation-View — Issue #462: From name not read per-message
Author: amstubbs
Created: 2011-10-11 08:24:21+00:00
State: open

I get lots of email from the LaunchPad bug tracker. Each message has a header like:

From: _Persons Name_ < _number_ @bugs.launchpad.net>

So, for every comment on a particular bug, the emails all come from the same address, but the name attributed to the address varied depending on who left the comment.

Thunderbird correctly lists the individual names in the list view, but the conversations extension reads the name from the first message, and then repeats it for all the messages in the thread, regardless of the actually content.

I assume this is the result of some misguided optimization, but it's annoying me. :(