Apple Mail - Email Send Field Showing Different Data, Unable To Sort Correctly

Hi All,
I'm having a very annoying issue in Apple Mail, running 10.6. Some of the incoming mail messages are showing the sender's email address in the "From" field, rather than the person's "Name". There are also cases where this is happening, but this time the email address in the From field has angle brackets ( <  and > ) around it. This makes sorting of emails by sender incorrect and broken apart.
So the three different ways it's displaying in the Mail window are:
From
Subject
John Smith
Lunch Today
[email protected]
Lunch Today
<[email protected]> <[email protected]>
Lunch Today
Here's what else I know:
- The error is NOT limited to a specific person, email address or mail domain. In other words, it has occurred differently with the same sender.
- The errors seem to occur in periods of time. In other words, it will display "correct" for a period of time (weeks or even months), then display "wrong" for a period of time. So it's not like every other message is different.
We contacted our ISP to see if they knew anything. They scratched their heads like we did, and they think that the issue is coming from the sender, rather than the mail server having a hiccup.
This is VERY frustrating, as I get lots of email in a day's time that can be time-sensitive.
Thanks in advance,
Mike

Hi All,
I'm having a very annoying issue in Apple Mail, running 10.6. Some of the incoming mail messages are showing the sender's email address in the "From" field, rather than the person's "Name". There are also cases where this is happening, but this time the email address in the From field has angle brackets ( <  and > ) around it. This makes sorting of emails by sender incorrect and broken apart.
So the three different ways it's displaying in the Mail window are:
From
Subject
John Smith
Lunch Today
[email protected]
Lunch Today
<[email protected]> <[email protected]>
Lunch Today
Here's what else I know:
- The error is NOT limited to a specific person, email address or mail domain. In other words, it has occurred differently with the same sender.
- The errors seem to occur in periods of time. In other words, it will display "correct" for a period of time (weeks or even months), then display "wrong" for a period of time. So it's not like every other message is different.
We contacted our ISP to see if they knew anything. They scratched their heads like we did, and they think that the issue is coming from the sender, rather than the mail server having a hiccup.
This is VERY frustrating, as I get lots of email in a day's time that can be time-sensitive.
Thanks in advance,
Mike

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