It’s weird that your older messages don’t have reply-to / sent-from unless it was stripped at some point in the past like what eMClient did to my pst when i did the initial import attempt.
And yes, I just looked at the same email, one imported from a .msg file and the other imported via eMClient’s mounting .pst file system… it stripped the sent-from email but kept the name.
A (final) follow up: I again searched eMC for those contacts with email address “nobody@…” and deleted that address on all 20+ occurances. Then I ticked the checkbox [ Settings | Mail | Read | Show name from contact ] on again → the real FROM sender name of header property is shown for the emails in question. Because now eMC’s search for some contact with the false “nobody@…” FROM-header as email address failes.
!'m unable to research if those old outlook98.PST contacts did have “nobody@.,.” or an empty email in the first place or if it is a bad import into eMV, because Outlook365 for some reason doesn’t show any of those contacts (10.000+) of that old file.
Evalutaion as far as my problem is concerned: The logic of eMC on working with the data it has stored seems conclusive. But import of that data maybe not so. For example PST as data file vs. dropped MSG file as mentioned above. And maybe just putting “nobody@…” into empty (or malformed) email fields on any imported contact?
I hope for future users that it is actually fixed, but since it has been over 2 years since I reported it I am unable to test or verify as there have been too many changes to my email folder structure, so I just have tens of thousands of old emails that say “[email protected]” and are a nightmare to try to search if needed.
Oh trust me I know… I refused to move my pst files into emclient unless they fixed it… which they have. For my vm I’m doing about 2000 emails per hour import from the pst file. I already tested it with a smaller file but now I’m doing my 300k items… about 50GB at a time now.
for the most part this issue is completed. You can import pst files into emclient now and it does work, for the most part.
For the record I decided not to import my pst files into emclient for a few reasons… the main one being that it would simply take too damn long to import 50GB files and any issue leads to a forensic search to look for the problem.
If you have small pst files you can, with whatever version it was fixed in, import them into emclient. But with that said, those pst files may not have all the headers for some reason or another (i.e. you copied a pst folder to a pst folder seems to be the one that caused me the most trouble).