How can I see what address an email was sent to?

[Guest]

If I send a message and later want to check and see which address it was sent
to (for example to someone who has more than 1 email address) how can I see
which email address it was sent to. The message only shows the name of the
person it was sent to, not their email address. I am using outlook express 6.

 

[Guest]

If you open your "Sent" folder, you should see that all the messages listed
in the pane at the top of the application show an email address, while the
message view pane below shows their name.

 

[TheScullster]

If you open your "Sent" folder, you should see that all the messages
listed
in the pane at the top of the application show an email address, while the
message view pane below shows their name.

Select the displayed name in the "to" field of the message, right click and
select Outlook Properties.
This shows the display name with associated email address below.

Phil

 

[Guest]

When I look at my "sent" folder as you suggest, I just see a name, but no
email address. Is there a way make the email address show up in that view?
You seem to indicate that you can see the email address on your "sent"
folder, but it doesn't show up there on mine.
-Hank

 

[Guest]

Thanks Phil. Now I can find the email address. But is there any way to make
these email address show up all the time so I don't have to first select,
then right click, then click on a tab in a new window? That seems so labor
intensive. I would like to be able to see the actual email addresses all the
time.
-Hank

 

[Guest]

That's an important question. To always show the email address of who you're
sending a message to seems like a pretty basic function of an email program!
I sent an important message to the wrong address this morning, because I
simply hit Reply to compose the message, and all that was shown in the To:
field was the person's name, not his email address.

 

[Brian Tillman]

That's an important question. To always show the email address of who
you're sending a message to seems like a pretty basic function of an
email program! I sent an important message to the wrong address this
morning, because I simply hit Reply to compose the message, and all
that was shown in the To: field was the person's name, not his email
address.

So, double-click it and look at the address.

 

[Guest]

That's the whole point - you don't always realize the person you're replying
to used an alternate email address - all you see is the name in the To: field
and it doesn't occur to you that it could be the wrong address. Automatically
showing a person's email address in an email message seems like a pretty
basic function for an email program! What's the downside?

 

[Brian Tillman]

That's the whole point - you don't always realize the person you're
replying to used an alternate email address - all you see is the name
in the To: field and it doesn't occur to you that it could be the
wrong address.

That's why I said to double-click the address before you click Send - so you
can see what address was used by your recipient.

Automatically showing a person's email address in an
email message seems like a pretty basic function for an email
program! What's the downside?

The downside is that the sender controls what's shown in the sender field
and you can't change that.

 

[Guest]

That's why I said to double-click the address before you click Send - so you
can see what address was used by your recipient.


The downside is that the sender controls what's shown in the sender field
and you can't change that.

This isn't something that's in the control of the person who sends me an
email. It's Outlook Express that decides what to show in the email address
boxes. I was using Netscape before and it always showed the email addresses
in the address boxes. Outlook doesn't do that. And from what I'm hearing and
seeing, there's no way to make the actual email address visible without going
to the name, right clicking (or double clicking) on the name, looking at the
pop up window and then closing up the pop up window. That's a lot of extra
steps to take to see the email address. It would sure be better if you could
just see the email addresses all the time. I guess this is just a weakness in
the program design.
-Racerx

 

[Brian Tillman]

This isn't something that's in the control of the person who sends me
an email.

Alas, you're wrong.

It's Outlook Express that decides what to show in the email
address boxes.

We're not talking about Outlook Express here. This is an Outlook newsgroup.

I was using Netscape before and it always showed the
email addresses in the address boxes.

What Netscape COmmunicator or Mozilla Thunderbird may or may not do has
absolutely no bearing on what Outlook does or doesn't do. This is a red
herring.

 

[Guest]

Did you get a solution to this problem? I want to have the display name not
appear at all so that I am only working with the full email addresses of all
sent and received emails. This will thus save me right-clicking, looking up
address books, looking up "panes", etc.

 

[Guest]

Brian, is there any way to simply not have the display name shown at all. I
don't want to have to keep right or doubleclicking in order to see full email
addresses and would much rather have all outgoing and incoming email
addresses written in full instead of just the display name with no email
address.
Many thanks for your help.

 

[Guest]

No, I never found a way to display the actual email addresses. The only way I
know to see the actual email address is to go through several steps detailed
in those earlier comments. I guess whoever designed the program decided that
if we wanted to know the address, we'd have to go look for it each time.
That's a design flaw in the program as far as I'm concerned. It's a pain in
the butt when people have several email addresses.
-Hank

 

[Guest]

Thanks Hank. I think Brian Tillman was pretty biased pro Microsoft with his
answers. This method makes it bloody difficult. For example, if I want to
find all the emails I have sent to anyone at with the address "@ljh.com.au",
I would normally search on "ljh.com.au". However, when I do this, it will
not find those emails which have been sent to anyone with a Display Name. eg
if my sent email is to "Joe Bloggs" whose address was (e-mail address removed), it
will not find this email. Only when I search on "Joe" or "Bloggs" will it
find this email. What a pain! Gary.

 

[Brian Tillman]

Thanks Hank. I think Brian Tillman was pretty biased pro Microsoft
with his answers.

I'm neither pro nor anti Microsoft.

 

[Guest]

Hi Gary. I haven't run into that problem yet. I guess that one is just out
there waiting to get me when I do a search sometime. Then I'll be pissed off
at Microsoft again. Outlook is the best email program I've been able to find.
When my old Netscape email program got so old that it was being crashed by
people's emails, I had to find a new email program. I tried Eudora, but it
was worse. I wish that when Microsoft took over Netscape, that they would
have incorporated Netscape's features into Outlook, but that didn't happen.
-Hank

 

[Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]]

Microsoft never "took over" Netscape mail. Netscape is still alive and
limping along all on its own.

--
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

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After furious head scratching, racerx asked:

| Hi Gary. I haven't run into that problem yet. I guess that one is
| just out there waiting to get me when I do a search sometime. Then
| I'll be pissed off at Microsoft again. Outlook is the best email
| program I've been able to find. When my old Netscape email program
| got so old that it was being crashed by people's emails, I had to
| find a new email program. I tried Eudora, but it was worse. I wish
| that when Microsoft took over Netscape, that they would have
| incorporated Netscape's features into Outlook, but that didn't
| happen. -Hank
|
| "garyj" wrote:
|
|| Thanks Hank. I think Brian Tillman was pretty biased pro Microsoft
|| with his answers. This method makes it bloody difficult. For
|| example, if I want to find all the emails I have sent to anyone at
|| with the address "@ljh.com.au", I would normally search on
|| "ljh.com.au". However, when I do this, it will not find those
|| emails which have been sent to anyone with a Display Name. eg if my
|| sent email is to "Joe Bloggs" whose address was (e-mail address removed),
|| it will not find this email. Only when I search on "Joe" or
|| "Bloggs" will it find this email. What a pain!
|| Gary.
||
|| "racerx" wrote:
||
||| No, I never found a way to display the actual email addresses. The
||| only way I know to see the actual email address is to go through
||| several steps detailed in those earlier comments. I guess whoever
||| designed the program decided that if we wanted to know the address,
||| we'd have to go look for it each time. That's a design flaw in the
||| program as far as I'm concerned. It's a pain in the butt when
||| people have several email addresses. -Hank
|||
||| "garyj" wrote:
|||
|||| Did you get a solution to this problem? I want to have the display
|||| name not appear at all so that I am only working with the full
|||| email addresses of all sent and received emails. This will thus
|||| save me right-clicking, looking up address books, looking up
|||| "panes", etc.
||||
|||| "racerx" wrote:
||||
||||| When I look at my "sent" folder as you suggest, I just see a
||||| name, but no email address. Is there a way make the email address
||||| show up in that view? You seem to indicate that you can see the
||||| email address on your "sent" folder, but it doesn't show up there
||||| on mine. -Hank
|||||
||||| "Terry" wrote:
|||||
|||||| If you open your "Sent" folder, you should see that all the
|||||| messages listed in the pane at the top of the application show
|||||| an email address, while the message view pane below shows their
|||||| name.

 

[Guest]

Racerx/Terry, appreciate all your helps. Re Terry's note re "pane at the top
of the application showing an email address":
When I open my sent folder, I have the left hand pane entitled "Mail"
containing "Favourite Folders", "All Mail Folders" and then the
Mail/Calendar/Contacts/Tasks buttons. My middle pane is the "Sent Items"
pane which lists all of the "sent" emails and the right hand side pane has
the reading pane for that particular email highlighted. I have no "pane at
the top of the application showing an email address". My middle "Sent Items"
pane shows the Display Name and not the full email address (unless obviously
I have set the Display Name to equal the email address before I sent the
email). To reiterate, the problem comes when you need to search for all
emails that have been sent to a particular email address (eg "@ljh.com.au")
but only those emails where no Display Name has been used are returned. eg;
if the email was sent to "(e-mail address removed)" but was sent with a Display
Name of "Joe Bloggs" my search for all emails sent to "@ljh.com.au" will not
come up this particular email. How do I make my search give me the correct
result of all emails sent to "@ljh.com.au"?
Thanks for your help guys.

 

[Guest]

Brian
Apologies if it appeared I was aggressive re pro or anti Microsoft; wasn't
meant to be put that way. Just a measure of the frustration at not being
able to do a search to locate all emails that I've sent to "@ljh.com.au". It
still won't give me those emails that were sent to a display name even when
the email address has the "@ljh.com.au" address within it. Is there any way
at all that you know that I can locate all emails that I have sent in my
"Sent" folder to "@ljh.com.au" and not have any miss out because the Display
Name does not have "@ljh.com.au" in it?