Bug 362280

Summary:	KMail replaces addresses in the header by "Me"
Product:	[Applications] kmail2	Reporter:	OlafLostViking <olaf.the.lost.viking>
Component:	UI	Assignee:	kdepim bugs <kdepim-bugs>
Status:	VERIFIED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	alex.premie, florian.lindner, kaputtnik, kees, lbeltrame, montel
Priority:	NOR
Version:	5.7.0
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Arch Linux
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:	5.2.2
Sentry Crash Report:

Description OlafLostViking 2016-04-26 08:25:04 UTC

KMail 5.2.0 (currently not selectable in the "Version" drop-down) replaces my e-mail address in the To: or From: etc. header by a "Me" in the message view. To see the correct address and name I have to reach for the mouse and hover over it with the pointer.

That's very inconvenient and useless (for me!). I know my own addresses... but as I am using KMail with a lot of accounts including "+"-suffices (the good support for this use case is one of the main reasons for me to use KMail) it's an unnecessary extra step to get all information.

I couldn't find a way to deactivate that new behaviour. If you really want to keep it (it's quite possible that just _I_ don't see the use case for that ;-) ), please make it optional so that the user can opt for the "real" header.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 Kees Bergwerf 2016-05-01 13:56:41 UTC

Same problem here with 5.2.0
Here it uses the Dutch "Ik"  that is "I" in English and wrong. It should be "Mij" but it is very annoying because I like to see the real email address because I have a couple and with "Me" I don't know what addres is used.

Comment 2 Alex6 2016-05-01 19:01:51 UTC

Same here  (5.2.0)
I know a (important) man called "ego", but no "Me"...
Worse: this thing is written in answers, quotations, forwardings... no more aliases, only "Me"!!!

Please make that new "feature" optional!

Comment 3 Luca Beltrame 2016-05-14 09:07:46 UTC

http://commits.kde.org/messagelib/bb8aa0e75f50caaff4a9a7b137d3a663b2e467ac should make "Me" change when there's more than one identity.

Comment 4 Alex6 2016-05-14 10:43:00 UTC

None of my identities is "Me" !!
Should replace my identity (when I (yes, I, Me, The Only & Preferred User of My Computer, Myself The Best) choose it) by what I want: Julius Caesar, Attila, Maximilien Robespierre, poor myself, Google no more addict, "_^_", Ego©®™, ..., ..., or my mail address, is it too complicated?

Comment 5 Luca Beltrame 2016-05-14 12:33:34 UTC

I'm not a developer. I merely reported that when there are multiple identities, the next version of KDE PIM will not display "Me" anymore.

For the rest, please look up https://www.kde.org/code-of-conduct when replying, thank you.

Comment 6 Franky 2016-05-14 13:23:33 UTC

(In reply to Luca Beltrame from comment #3)
> http://commits.kde.org/messagelib/bb8aa0e75f50caaff4a9a7b137d3a663b2e467ac
> should make "Me" change when there's more than one identity.

Thanks :-)

Comment 7 Kees Bergwerf 2016-05-15 09:40:09 UTC

Perhaps something else should be fixed then.
I always have an empty identity on top.
So, in the settings

[ empty identity]
[1st identity       ]
[2nd identity     ]
[..                        ]

When I remove the empty identity, after a short time it is back. That means that there are always more than 1 identities.
It is not a problem for me, but in that case the "Me" will never show up. Perhaps..

Comment 8 Alex6 2016-05-15 19:11:30 UTC

"should make "Me" change when there's more than one identity"

Must create and add a false identity to obtain the same behavior as in kmail 0 -> 2.0 ?
Probably stupid, but not understood the interest of "Me"...

Comment 9 OlafLostViking 2018-01-03 09:09:09 UTC

After showing collegues KMail I stumbled upon this "feature" again. I am well aware how to get around that (as kindly explained above), but this surely isn't a well received workaround.

Since this report is closed, shall we continue discussing in here or open a new one? Thanks.