Display incoming email From name based on contact information

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TheCleaner

OUTLOOK VERSION: Outlook 2003 w/ sp2
EXCHANGE VERSION: Exchange 2003 w/ sp2
Corporate environment / single domain

ISSUE:

User has a contact, let's say [email protected], with "Display As" set to
John Smith.

User then receives an email from [email protected] but it comes in From
"John Smith, Jr." in the display. Which I always thought was controlled by
the sender's side.

The user says that this used to not be the case. That they had a way to
make sure that any emails from [email protected] always displayed whatever
their contact "Display As" was set to. So if they changed
[email protected]'s contact to "Jane Doe" it would then display as Jane Doe
when that address sent them email.

I'm saying that is not the case, but can't prove it.

So, can I make sure that any emails that come in from [email protected] or
any other contact this user has filed, always shows as "From:" and then their
"Display As" field in Contacts?

Thanks for your help.
 
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Brian Tillman

TheCleaner said:
OUTLOOK VERSION: Outlook 2003 w/ sp2
EXCHANGE VERSION: Exchange 2003 w/ sp2
Corporate environment / single domain

ISSUE:

User has a contact, let's say [email protected], with "Display As"
set to John Smith.

User then receives an email from [email protected] but it comes in
From "John Smith, Jr." in the display. Which I always thought was
controlled by the sender's side.\
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It is.
The user says that this used to not be the case. That they had a way
to make sure that any emails from [email protected] always displayed
whatever their contact "Display As" was set to. So if they changed
[email protected]'s contact to "Jane Doe" it would then display as
Jane Doe when that address sent them email.
Nope.

I'm saying that is not the case, but can't prove it.
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The From field will always show whatever the sender has defined in the
equivalent of the "Your Name" field of an Outlook account.
So, can I make sure that any emails that come in from
[email protected] or any other contact this user has filed, always
shows as "From:" and then their "Display As" field in Contacts?
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Can't be done.
 
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dlw

Why oh why can't we just have an "Email Address" field to add to the inbox
columns? An email client that actually shows email addresses, what a concept!
 
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