> “John Smith” <john@example.com>
Why would email clients copy a string like this? In my entire history of email copying and pasting, I don't think I've ever wanted that text.
Why would email clients copy a string like this? In my entire history of email copying and pasting, I don't think I've ever wanted that text.
In Gmail at least you can get what you want with some careful highlighting - but Apple Mail doesn't let you copy that portion at all. Hence this feature :)
The SMTP spec (RFC 5321) which describes what goes on the wire between an SMTP client and an SMTP server uses addresses in a '<to@example.com>' format.
defaults write com.apple.mail AddressesIncludeNameOnPasteboard -bool false
Can't blame Apple enough for making this a hidden default one has to use the terminal to enable. WHY ?
I last tried this around 18 months ago, in a Firefox extension. Was a bit fiddly but I could do what I wanted.
You're more limited in what you can do in a web application though.