Cindyk said:
I only want my name to appear when I send emails. Right now it shows
my name and my email address in parentheses. How do I get Outlook to
show just my name?
Outlook won't let you define an e-mail account without "something" in
the E-mail field; i.e., it will not permit that field to be empty.
There's the clue: "something". So decide on what "something" you want
to use. If you look at the headers of my post, you'll see what
"something" I used in the From header (composed of the Name and E-mail
fields).
Note that not divulging your e-mail address is of no consequence in
tracking that you sent it. The data in the From header is just that:
data. It is data that the sender composed and that the sender submitted
within the DATA command to the SMTP server as part of their message. It
is NOT used to identify the sender of the e-mail, just like the To
header is part of the message data and is NOT used in specifying the
recipient of your message (that is handled by the RCPT command your
e-mail client sends to the SMTP server). You can still be traced back
by using the Message-ID, IP header (if present), and the first Received
header that your SMTP server added to your message's headers. So don't
go thinking that hiding your e-mail address in the From header is going
to keep you safe from the effects of issuing spam, abuse, or illegal
e-mails.
