Re: Zoe not fetching reclassified mesages from Popfile

Hi,

On Thu, 18 Nov 2004 20:39:02 +0100 Zoe <[email protected]> wrote:

> Right... but this is your ongoing battle with malformed emails...

<sigh>

> Yes. This is a possibility. Instead of ignoring those messages 
> altogether, the app could simply mark them as "discarded". This is what 
> you have in mind?

On second thought, I'm not sure anymore. For me, this solution is only
marginally less cumbersome than my current workaround. So, don't bother
unless someone else asks for it.

> Ahhh... the mystery of NetGeo [1]... this is how it goes... the app try 
> to find the IP address, er, "closest to you" by examining a message 
> "Received" headers... this address is then converted to a geographical 
> location using NetGeo... 

Ah, so.

> please note that:
> 
> "NetGeo has not been actively maintained for several years, and this 
> will probably not change in the foreseeable future. 

That's too bad for such a fun idea.

> In a nutshell, this is mostly guess work... there is a configuration to 
> disable this NetGeo business altogether if you find it too confusing... 

Great, could you tell me how? Just went through the configuration items
in config. editor and couldn't find it.

That would only solve part of the problem, though. The part I wish to
customize the most is the "Name" part on the display. I've found Zoe
would register the names used by the sender (in header fields like From,
To, cc, etc.) the first time it sees a new email address, right? The
problem is, the way the sender calls him/her-self or the recipient may
not be the way I like.

Often it's just annoying, but sometimes it can be real pain. E.g.,
someone's name might be misspelled in the first message Zoe sees. Though
subsequent messages corrected the error, Zoe insists on using the wrong
name. 

Or it might be utterly uninformative, like "Mr. Chen" (in Chinese), for
there are millions of Mr. Chen in Taiwan; hundreds of them correspond
with me at least once.

So, what I really want is to be able to change the name Zoe associates
with an email address. Is there anyway to do that?

-- 
Best regards,
Ming-Li



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