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The name displayed along with an email address - the display name - is easy to change for email you send. For email you receive? Not so much.

by Leo A. Notenboom, © 2010

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How can I change the display name of an email in Outlook 2003 inbox? So, for example, if 'joe@aol.com' sends me an email, my inbox may display, in the 'from' column, 'Joe Smith'. But, with the same email address, it might display just 'Joe'. Same issue with non-AOL emails. One of my main clients has both an AOL and non-AOL address he uses, and his two email addresses show up as five different people in my inbox, in various forms ('joe', 'joe smith', 'joe.smith@work.com', etc.).

I'd like to change the display names of the two email addresses so they are the same (e.g., 'Joe Smith'), and thus would sort and group together when I choose to sort by 'from'.

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The short answer is that as the recipient of an email you can't.

The longer answer is that the name (formally, the 'display name') that getsdisplayed along with or instead of an email address is controlled by thesender's email program. You can control how your name appears on outgoingemail, and even how other people's names appear on outgoing email, buton email you receive, editing the name isn't really an option.

I'll show you one example of exactly where the sender configures that, andthen also explain why even if your sender uses the exact same name everywhere,your email program may still not sort as you describe.

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First, I need to review one concept with you.

While we normally think of email addresses as a single thing, in fact manyemail programs, and in fact the email protocol, split them into two parts:

• The email address: someone@somerandomservice.com for example. This is, of course,required as it defines the exact recipient of the email.

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• The recipient's name: Leo Notenboom forexample. This is just used for display purposes, hence it's called the 'DisplayName'. It's optional, but when present is simply meant as a more readable andoften more meaningful description that corresponds to the email address.

In fact, you'll often see email address in email headers looking somethinglike this:

From: Leo Notenboom<someone@somerandomservice.com>
To: Santa Clause<someoneelse@somerandomservice.com>

Thus both the optional display name and actual email address areincluded.

You decide what your email program will use when you set up your emailaccount in that program.

Here's a typical account creation dialog - this one from Outlook 2007 - thatis used when you set up a new email account in your email program:

There's something important to note about this: 'Your Name' in this exampleis the Display Name, and can be anything you want.

That's important when you realize spammers and scammers do it all thetime:

From: Paypal Customer Service<definitely-not-paypal@somerandomservice.com>

They do this because email programs don't all agree on what to display. Inthe list of emails in an inbox they can choose to display:

• the display name
• the email name
• both

Displaying only the display name is quite common, and thus in my made upscammer example above you'd see only 'Paypal Customer Service' when in fact theemail address associated with the message isn't related to Paypal at all. Thescammers are hoping you don't pay close attention when you look at the fullmessage where both are typically displayed.

And that leads us to the sorting problem.

Just like there's no agreement on what to display, there's even moreconfusion on how to sort.

An email program might decide to:

• Display the display name, and sort the list by that Display Name. (Mostprograms operate this way, and it's what you've assumed in your question.

• Display the email address, and sort the list by email address.

• Display the display name and sort by email address. Or other oddcombinations thereof.

Most of the time you'd be fine - Outlook for example uses and sorts by theDisplay Name. Other email programs will vary.

And while you can control how your email address and display name look inthe inboxes of others, you typically can't control how theirs appears inyours.

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So, I take it, then, that if your sender used AOL, Gmail, Hotmail, and Outlook or OE as mail senders..
Then you would have to ask your sender to configure his own address book references to himself, so that they all read the same.. and he'd have to get his ISP to configure his ISP address the same way..
As in:
FIRST NAME: John
LAST NAME: Doe
NICK NAME: JohnDoe
MAIL ADDRESS: John.Doe@Xmail.com
And then, then perhaps, his 'split email personas' would unite?
Of course, you still would get 1 message from AOL, one from GMAIL, one from Hotmail, whatever he used as a sender.
Sounds like a lot of work for the sender.
Could the recipient not set up some sort of 'Mail Handling Rule', where if the email is from this sender, they all go to a certain folder called, say 'JOHNNY'?
is in:
IF [sender=] john@gmail.com, johndoe@aol.com, doejohn@ISPmail.com, johnny@hotmail.com THEN [move to =] FOLDER 'JOHNNY'
Note that the above is a very generic rule, the specifics for your email program WILL differ.
Pierre

I agree with Pierre and, in fact, have my email set up that way. It's an easy process with Outlook Express and requires no programming or scripting skills.

Simply create the desired folder in the inbox, then use the menu item Tools/Message Rules/Mail to place email from 'so-and-so' to folder 'so-and-so'.
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Thunderbird has a setting for senders that are in your address book you can override the email's display name and get it to display the name that Thunderbird has saved in your address book. Since each contact can have multiple email addresses, both email addresses for the same person would show under the same name with this option enabled.

As a sender, my work email is my whole name. My personal emails are set as First Name & Last Initial, First Initial & Last Name, and First Name only. Four different display names for the same person.

Can anyone help. In my outlook express , i got two mails from a sender . one with the sender's name the other with his email id in mail box. is this the sender's email header setting or outlook setting issue of sender or receiver.

My husband and my son have the same name. We call my son by his middle name and that's the way he appears in my contact list but his outgoing mail uses his first name. This causes both my husband and son's email to intermix in my inbox. Can I create a custom rule to change the display name on emails from my son's accounts?

I am having the same issue. I received emails, to use this as an example, from johndoe@example.com but when it displays his name, I get it as John Doe or Doe, John. I have access to this other person's computer and their outlook. So where in their settings do I go to change this so it only comes in as John Doe?

The sender and I both use Outlook 2010 by the way.

If your Outlook inbox somehow had a Name change , Ie It no longer Displays as inbox and shows up as xyw@abczxy.dom,
you can try to close outlook and then run
outlook.exe/resetfoldernames

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