When Replying, new email uses name of emailer from old email rather then contacts.

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Fisheye

To explain this further.
When someone sends me an email it comes in saying:
from: Mr Xiao Xia (e-mail address removed)

I have in my contacts: Freddy Xia with the email address (e-mail address removed)

When i reply to that email, it uses the name he sends as, rather then the
name i have chosen to sort him as.

When i use my Mac computer with Entourage 2004, the behaviour is how i
expect it to be, it uses the name from my contacts.

But in Outlook 2003, it does not.

Is there a way to change Outlooks behaviour in this scenario?

Regards,
Jamie
 
Replies always use the address of the sender. That's what a reply is.
If you want to send to another address, that's not a reply.
 
Its not the address that i want changed.
It is the Name that they use.

Please read the post more carefully.

In my contacts, i have peoples names and email addresses.
And when people send me email it comes up the name they choose on their
account settings,
rather then the one i want to use for sorting them in my contacts.

The email address is the same, but the DISPLAY name is what i want to
automaticly change from what they used, to what i have saved in my contacts.

This is the default behavior of entourage for Macs, and i feel it is the
logical behaviour, to use the name that you select for someone. Much like
you can in many messenger programs.

I wanted to know if there was any registry hack or plugin, or tick box that
i ahve missed that would provide this same functionallity in Outlook.

Thanks for your time,
Jamie

Russ Valentine said:
Replies always use the address of the sender. That's what a reply is.
If you want to send to another address, that's not a reply.
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
Fisheye said:
To explain this further.
When someone sends me an email it comes in saying:
from: Mr Xiao Xia (e-mail address removed)

I have in my contacts: Freddy Xia with the email address
(e-mail address removed)

When i reply to that email, it uses the name he sends as, rather then the
name i have chosen to sort him as.

When i use my Mac computer with Entourage 2004, the behaviour is how i
expect it to be, it uses the name from my contacts.

But in Outlook 2003, it does not.

Is there a way to change Outlooks behaviour in this scenario?

Regards,
Jamie
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I see. So it's only the Display Name you are concerned with.
That is controlled by the sender, not the recipient. Outlook assumes the
sender prefers to be called by the familiar name they chose for themselves,
not the one you chose for them. That is not behavior you can change.
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
Fisheye said:
Its not the address that i want changed.
It is the Name that they use.

Please read the post more carefully.

In my contacts, i have peoples names and email addresses.
And when people send me email it comes up the name they choose on their
account settings,
rather then the one i want to use for sorting them in my contacts.

The email address is the same, but the DISPLAY name is what i want to
automaticly change from what they used, to what i have saved in my
contacts.

This is the default behavior of entourage for Macs, and i feel it is the
logical behaviour, to use the name that you select for someone. Much like
you can in many messenger programs.

I wanted to know if there was any registry hack or plugin, or tick box
that i ahve missed that would provide this same functionallity in Outlook.

Thanks for your time,
Jamie

Russ Valentine said:
Replies always use the address of the sender. That's what a reply is.
If you want to send to another address, that's not a reply.
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
Fisheye said:
To explain this further.
When someone sends me an email it comes in saying:
from: Mr Xiao Xia (e-mail address removed)

I have in my contacts: Freddy Xia with the email address
(e-mail address removed)

When i reply to that email, it uses the name he sends as, rather then
the name i have chosen to sort him as.

When i use my Mac computer with Entourage 2004, the behaviour is how i
expect it to be, it uses the name from my contacts.

But in Outlook 2003, it does not.

Is there a way to change Outlooks behaviour in this scenario?

Regards,
Jamie
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