Add option to display raw email address in the Thunderbird From field

[ronks]

In my Thunderbird email window, if the sender field is of the form
John Doe <jdoe@example.com>
then the From field appears in lists (Inbox, etc.) simply as John Doe.

It would be a useful option to display the bracketed part as well.
I get daily spam of the form (I'm making this one up)
Microsoft <abc789@att.com>
which is obviously spoofed from reading the address.
It would save time and I think enhance security if I could view that in a column without opening the email.

I understand there is a "Full Address Column" add-on for this, but it is unofficial; the need seems great enough to offer this functionality in a official version.

[Jon]

@ronks if I'm understanding correctly, there may be a similar idea already posted here to Connect: new column for e-mail-address of sender 

If this aligns with your request, we can merge the threads (and combine the kudos) so the conversation stay focused in one space. Just let me know 😃

[ronks]

Yes, the earlier suggestion looks like it offers the same option to verify a sender. I started using an existing add-on a couple weeks ago and already have spotted several deceptive From titles with it.

[Thunderbrd_User]

This option already exists using Thunderbird global settings (lower left corner of Thunderbird sidebar).  Settings/General/Reading_and_Display/Message_List: the following options for "preferred address display format" are available: (1) Full name and email address; (2) Email only' (3) Name only.

There's only one problem.  There's either a flaw or lack of sophistication in Thunderbird's display of full email addresses in lists. Thunderbird will sometimes only display the 'Name' even though the full email address is displayed for most of the other emails, in the list format.

And this can be a major problem for user junk filtering because Thunderbird's 'message filtering' user tools have the same problem and won't always process the full email address.  So far, I have observed this happening with spam emails ending in .pro.