Nowadays, our mailboxes are spammed with fishing mails.
Most of them try to hide their real source behind a sender name, eg. "Deutsche Bank"[email protected].
In the mobile app I only see “Deutsche Bank”.
It is much easier to immediately discover fishing mails when I see the real sender address, but this is too complicated in the mobile em Client. In the desktop client we have the tool tip, not perfect but good enough.
Please add an option to show sender address instead of sender name.
It is already there, same place as on the desktop: Settings->Read->Show email addresses in email header
No
Setting is enabled, I can’t see your real mail address…
If I long press on the address, a Mini Tooltip appears, and it is completely covered by my finger. If I release, the tooltip disappears immediately. No chance to see the real address.
You could, alternatively, display the real address when I try to move the mail to junk - there I am being asked whether I want to put the mail address or the domain onto the blacklist:
What do you want to blacklist:
[[email protected]]
[*@thievery.com]
Setting is enabled, I can’t see your real mail address.
If the “sender name is too long” as in the below example screenshot on eM Client Droid, (even if you have show email address in header) then you won’t see the sender email address or you might only see a partial sender email address depending on how long the sender name is.
So to then see the sender email address for these type of senders with long names “press the 3 horizontal dots” on the far right of the sender email address and swipe down to th very bottom and press “view mail header”.
The popup opened by long tab is so small on my Pixel 10 Pro XL that it is always hidden behind my finger. Font-scaling is broken for this popup - and I would recommend moving the popup some pixel up to prevent that the finger overlaps the window.
BTW: This feature popup - is there a setting to enable it? “Copy Email” is quite useful but not shown on my device.
Yes using the latest eM Client mobile droid V10.4.4297 / OS 16 “long tap on the senders email address is not usable on” as its behind your finger as @siaccarino advised. I can also replicate that. No popup window shows.
However on the iPhone / iPad V10.4.4205 when you long press on the senders email address “you do get the popup window” showing the senders full email address as in your screenshot.
EM Client support replied back and they have reproduced this same Android issue “where long pressing on the senders email address does not show the popup window on Android” and have sent it to the devs to fix in a future update.
Hello. It’s been more than six months now. Is there any news regarding the display of email addresses in “plain text”?
It’s really very important that users can tell at a glance whether the displayed sender’s name corresponds to the actual sender or is a spammer or something similar.
For the mobile app (Android), I’d prefer a setting that lets me display the email address instead of the name.
But the option is already there: Settings->Read->Show email addresses in email header.
On my EM Client (Android, 10.5.308) this option does actually nothing
Even long press on header is still broken:
On the other side, nowadays more and more spam mail comes with fake mailto addresses, so this function becomes more and more useless to identify spam…
Instead of, not in addition to ;-)
I’d like to revisit Siaccarino’s comments and reiterate his request for an immediately recognizable email address in the mobile app.
In my view, the easiest way to achieve this would be with an option that disables the display of the contact name or generated sender name.
The “solution” offered so far—a long tap on the email address—is not practical, as has already been explained here.
As correctly noted at the beginning of this thread, “malicious” senders are increasingly hiding behind false names. In most cases (unfortunately not all), this can be verified by viewing the email address, allowing you to delete the email in question without having to go through the hassle of viewing the header or similar steps.
An option to disable the sender’s name in the mobile app doesn’t hurt anyone, but it helps those affected enormously!
