Name in CC

[aaronfude]

Hi,

Suppose I'm CC'ing John Smith in my email and his email is (e-mail address removed)
What do I need to do so that the reciepient of my email would see the
proper name John Smith and not his email address in the CC field?

Many thanks in advance!

Aaron Fude

 

[Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]]

In

Hi,

Suppose I'm CC'ing John Smith in my email and his email is (e-mail address removed)
What do I need to do so that the reciepient of my email would see the
proper name John Smith and not his email address in the CC field?

Many thanks in advance!

Aaron Fude

You can't control this....sorry.

 

[aaronfude]

You can't control this....sorry.

In principle, what controls this? (I mean on a lower level.) If I were
to send the message programatically (say in .Net or java) could I be
able to control it?

 

[Brian Tillman]

Suppose I'm CC'ing John Smith in my email and his email is (e-mail address removed)
What do I need to do so that the reciepient of my email would see the
proper name John Smith and not his email address in the CC field?

Entering the address as "John Smith"<[email protected]> might work.

 

[Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]]

In

In principle, what controls this? (I mean on a lower level.) If I were
to send the message programatically (say in .Net or java) could I be
able to control it?

No. You can't control the display name in a recipient on a message you send
out over the Internet. You can control *your* display name (usually) - and
if you were using an internal mail server, and all recipients were internal
users, the display name would be controlled centrally there.

Must ask - what makes you ask?

 

[aaronfude]

In

No. You can't control the display name in a recipient on a message you send
out over the Internet. You can control *your* display name (usually) - and
if you were using an internal mail server, and all recipients were internal
users, the display name would be controlled centrally there.

Must ask - what makes you ask?

Business reasons. If the cc two of our clients and one name appears and
the other only appears as an email, the latter feels slighted.

Which makes me, in a way, repeat my technical question: how come this
happens. What is it in (or out of) my Outlook that determines whether
the name or merely the email address appears in the CC field?

 

[Snarky Parker]

If you happen to be running Outlook 2002, I've found that this feature can be
controlled by editing the "Display-As" field for every record in Contacts,
tailoring it to show only the name.

Your To and Cc fields must be filed from Contacts to ensure the wanted results.

This technique may not work in OL2003.

|
| Lanwench [MVP - Exchange] wrote:
| > In | > (e-mail address removed) <[email protected]> typed:
| > > Lanwench [MVP - Exchange] wrote:
| > >
| > >>
| > >> You can't control this....sorry.
| > >
| > > In principle, what controls this? (I mean on a lower level.) If I were
| > > to send the message programatically (say in .Net or java) could I be
| > > able to control it?
| >
| > No. You can't control the display name in a recipient on a message you send
| > out over the Internet. You can control *your* display name (usually) - and
| > if you were using an internal mail server, and all recipients were internal
| > users, the display name would be controlled centrally there.
| >
| > Must ask - what makes you ask?
|
| Business reasons. If the cc two of our clients and one name appears and
| the other only appears as an email, the latter feels slighted.
|
| Which makes me, in a way, repeat my technical question: how come this
| happens. What is it in (or out of) my Outlook that determines whether
| the name or merely the email address appears in the CC field?
|

 

[Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]]

In

If you happen to be running Outlook 2002, I've found that this
feature can be controlled by editing the "Display-As" field for every
record in Contacts, tailoring it to show only the name.

Your To and Cc fields must be filed from Contacts to ensure the
wanted results.

This technique may not work in OL2003.

I played with this and couldn't make it work. The sender controls the
display name on his/her own address (and even that may not be sufficient,
depending on the mail servers through which the message passes). The display
name for *recipients* is for the convenience of the sender only. Mail
servers don't really care about display names.

In (e-mail address removed) <[email protected]> typed:
Lanwench [MVP - Exchange] wrote:


You can't control this....sorry.

In principle, what controls this? (I mean on a lower level.) If I
were to send the message programatically (say in .Net or java)
could I be able to control it?

No. You can't control the display name in a recipient on a message
you send out over the Internet. You can control *your* display name
(usually) - and if you were using an internal mail server, and all
recipients were internal users, the display name would be
controlled centrally there.

Must ask - what makes you ask?

Business reasons. If the cc two of our clients and one name appears
and the other only appears as an email, the latter feels slighted.

Which makes me, in a way, repeat my technical question: how come this
happens. What is it in (or out of) my Outlook that determines whether
the name or merely the email address appears in the CC field?

 

[Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]]

In

In

Lanwench [MVP - Exchange] wrote:


You can't control this....sorry.

In principle, what controls this? (I mean on a lower level.) If I
were to send the message programatically (say in .Net or java)
could I be able to control it?

No. You can't control the display name in a recipient on a message
you send out over the Internet. You can control *your* display name
(usually) - and if you were using an internal mail server, and all
recipients were internal users, the display name would be controlled
centrally there.

Must ask - what makes you ask?

Business reasons. If the cc two of our clients and one name appears
and the other only appears as an email, the latter feels slighted.

Which makes me, in a way, repeat my technical question: how come this
happens. What is it in (or out of) my Outlook that determines whether
the name or merely the email address appears in the CC field?

I haven't been able to make this work at all on an internet-bound message.
Have you?

 

[Snarky Parker]

Recently, in a similar thread, I had this same discussion with Russ Valentine
[MVP] and I sent him an e-mail message to prove that it can/does work. I think
he was also amazed upon its receipt.

I assume that we both were using POP3 servers.

Keep in mind that I'm using OL2002. The OP never stated which version he is
using.

This feature also works well in Outlook Express, as long as the Display-As field
is properly configured, or if OE is configured to use Outlook's Contacts with
the Display-As fields tailored to suit.

"Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]"
|
|
| In | Snarky Parker <[email protected]> typed:
| > If you happen to be running Outlook 2002, I've found that this
| > feature can be controlled by editing the "Display-As" field for every
| > record in Contacts, tailoring it to show only the name.
| >
| > Your To and Cc fields must be filed from Contacts to ensure the
| > wanted results.
| >
| > This technique may not work in OL2003.
|
| I played with this and couldn't make it work. The sender controls the
| display name on his/her own address (and even that may not be sufficient,
| depending on the mail servers through which the message passes). The display
| name for *recipients* is for the convenience of the sender only. Mail
| servers don't really care about display names.
|
| >
| > | >>
| >> Lanwench [MVP - Exchange] wrote:
| >>> In | >>> (e-mail address removed) <[email protected]> typed:
| >>>> Lanwench [MVP - Exchange] wrote:
| >>>>
| >>>>>
| >>>>> You can't control this....sorry.
| >>>>
| >>>> In principle, what controls this? (I mean on a lower level.) If I
| >>>> were to send the message programatically (say in .Net or java)
| >>>> could I be able to control it?
| >>>
| >>> No. You can't control the display name in a recipient on a message
| >>> you send out over the Internet. You can control *your* display name
| >>> (usually) - and if you were using an internal mail server, and all
| >>> recipients were internal users, the display name would be
| >>> controlled centrally there.
| >>>
| >>> Must ask - what makes you ask?
| >>
| >> Business reasons. If the cc two of our clients and one name appears
| >> and the other only appears as an email, the latter feels slighted.
| >>
| >> Which makes me, in a way, repeat my technical question: how come this
| >> happens. What is it in (or out of) my Outlook that determines whether
| >> the name or merely the email address appears in the CC field?
|
|

 

[Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]]

In

Recently, in a similar thread, I had this same discussion with Russ
Valentine [MVP] and I sent him an e-mail message to prove that it
can/does work. I think he was also amazed upon its receipt.

I assume that we both were using POP3 servers.

Keep in mind that I'm using OL2002. The OP never stated which version
he is using.

This feature also works well in Outlook Express, as long as the
Display-As field is properly configured, or if OE is configured to
use Outlook's Contacts with the Display-As fields tailored to suit.

Hmmm - well, using OL2003 SP2, connected to Exchange, I tested this.
I sent a test message to my Yahoo acount and cc'd another Exchange mailbox,
and also cc'd my Gmail account (had set up a contact in my Outlook for
this).
The display name for the cc'd Exchange mailbox showed up fine; the Gmail
account showed the SMTP address.
So, no dice here.

"Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]"

In

If you happen to be running Outlook 2002, I've found that this
feature can be controlled by editing the "Display-As" field for
every record in Contacts, tailoring it to show only the name.

Your To and Cc fields must be filed from Contacts to ensure the
wanted results.

This technique may not work in OL2003.

I played with this and couldn't make it work. The sender controls the
display name on his/her own address (and even that may not be
sufficient, depending on the mail servers through which the message
passes). The display name for *recipients* is for the convenience of
the sender only. Mail servers don't really care about display names.

Lanwench [MVP - Exchange] wrote:
In (e-mail address removed) <[email protected]> typed:
Lanwench [MVP - Exchange] wrote:


You can't control this....sorry.

In principle, what controls this? (I mean on a lower level.) If I
were to send the message programatically (say in .Net or java)
could I be able to control it?

No. You can't control the display name in a recipient on a message
you send out over the Internet. You can control *your* display
name (usually) - and if you were using an internal mail server,
and all recipients were internal users, the display name would be
controlled centrally there.

Must ask - what makes you ask?

Business reasons. If the cc two of our clients and one name appears
and the other only appears as an email, the latter feels slighted.

Which makes me, in a way, repeat my technical question: how come
this happens. What is it in (or out of) my Outlook that determines
whether the name or merely the email address appears in the CC
field?