[Bug 25766] Review Gabble Google Mail Notification

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http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=25766





--- Comment #14 from Nicolas Dufresne <nicolas.dufresne at collabora.co.uk>  2010-02-25 07:05:57 PST ---
(In reply to comment #13)
> I still think omitting senders who don't have an email address, and making an
> effort to supply some sort of non-empty display name, is a better handling for
> this, to be nicer to UIs (UIs should be programmed defensively too, of course,
> but there are likely to be more of them than there are CMs and they won't all
> get the subtleties right).
> 

Omitting senders who don't have a email address is one thing, but you may want
to omit also the mail that does not have any senders. Again, I won't do that,
it's a waste of time, the server is not bugged atm. The only thing that I care
around this subject is that if it was bugged, I must not crash.

But you absolutely need to understand that faking an common name is very bad
thing. The common name is an optional field, if you don't have it it's not an
error, leave it empty, the UI will understand. The common name is an additional
information that is used to better understand who is the sender when email
address does not contains the real senders name. No standard make it mandatory
and even Google with their huge search server cannot generate one that really
make sense. All email client I know lives with that fact and displays the email
address alone if common name is not provided. And that happens very often.


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