From: Randall Parker 

If you put parens in an email address to obfuscate an email addr to fool
the spammers then Thunderbird shows the stuff in parens rather than the
"Your Name" field as the Sender address.

take-out-this-stuff same-name-as-on-left-side dot-here wrote:
> The "Your Name" field isn't showing up as the Sender when I post from
> Thunderbird on Linux. But it does show up as Sender when I post from
> Thunderbird on Windows. Is the Linux version more buggy?

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