Outlook sorting troubles.

October 13, 2006 11:23 AM

Outlook help! How do I get outlook to display the actual email address of the sender instead of just the default "from" field that displays the name associated with the address?
posted by guruguy9 to computers & internet (9 comments total)

Do you want it to display the actual e-mail address all the time, or do you just want to be able to find out the e-mail address for a particular message you recieved?

I'm not sure how to do the former, but if you just want to find out the address on a particular message, double click on the name when the message is open.
posted by willnot at 11:51 AM on October 13, 2006

I'm actually looking for the actual e-mail address field to display all the time so that I can sort by it.
posted by guruguy9 at 11:54 AM on October 13, 2006

Not sure if you've found an answer. I managed to find a way to do it, but it takes some work.

Go to this page. Copy the CFG file (the part in italics) and paste it into a text file named anything you want but with the .CFG extension. Like email.cfg.

Thank go to this page and follow the instructions after the CFG file that will tell you how to add the column into your inbox.

I did this and it sort of worked. Mail massages from people in my organization showed the X.400 address instead of the SMTP address, which is what you're looking for. However, for people outside my organization it shows the smtp address. Maybe the cfg file could be edited, but I don't know how to do it.

I don't see a way to do this from within Outlook without a customization like that.
posted by bDiddy at 1:41 PM on October 13, 2006

Thanks for the help bDiddy - i'm going to give it a shot as i think the SMTP address info might help too.
posted by guruguy9 at 1:57 PM on October 13, 2006

Can't you just edit how they're processed under Outlook Contacts? I'm not at work, and don't use it at home, but I seem to remember that that's the way I've done it. Good luck.
posted by Meep! Eek! at 2:34 PM on October 13, 2006

Meep I'm not seeing how to do it using contacts (unless the person you're receiving the email from is a contact). bDiddy's explanation worked perfectly once I realized that I had to drop the new cfg file into the same folder as the other CFGs.
posted by guruguy9 at 2:52 PM on October 13, 2006

guruguy9: "Meep I'm not seeing how to do it using contacts (unless the person you're receiving the email from is a contact). bDiddy's explanation worked perfectly once I realized that I had to drop the new cfg file into the same folder as the other CFGs."

I'm sorry, I didn't realize that you were talking about mail from non-contacts. I usually have problems with the way my contacts have set themselves up and have to tweak them.

Glad to hear you got the fix, tho. :)
posted by Meep! Eek! at 5:48 PM on October 13, 2006

Glad I was able to help!
posted by bDiddy at 9:10 PM on October 14, 2006

You and this guy have something in common (look at the comments beginning with Mailsmith).
posted by WCityMike at 8:33 AM on October 15, 2006