Thunderbird email address display

[Karl Auer]

On Thu, 2023-10-05 at 16:13 +0800, Bret Busby wrote:
> So, the Supernova malware makes Thunderbird v115 malware.
> [...]
> Luckily, I did not naively downgrade [...] to the malware edition
> [...]
> It is unfortunate that due to the malignants responsible

While I understand your frustration, Supernova really isn't malware,
the authors are not "malignants", and Thunderbird itself is not
malware.

It's just software that has lost a feature you valued, a feature that
makes the software slightly less secure for some workflows, but that
will in all probability be restored at some point if enough people
think it's important. The version you have gone back to almost
certainly has other, probably worse, security issues, as it is a lot of
versions old.

I guess you are exaggerating for effect, but it makes you look a bit
silly. It's unlikely to move anyone to want to help you - least of all
the Thunderbird maintainers who are the only people likely to be able
to. You might get more traction with a friendly bug report (and maybe a
donation)...

Personally I like the idea of having an option to display addresses
instead of display names, an option to display addresses as well as
display names, and an optional hover behaviour that reveals the address
underlying a display name.

Regards, K.

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Karl Auer (kauer at biplane.com.au)
http://www.biplane.com.au/kauer

GPG fingerprint: 61A0 99A9 8823 3A75 871E 5D90 BADB B237 260C 9C58
Old fingerprint: 2561 E9EC D868 E73C 8AF1 49CF EE50 4B1D CCA1 5170