Email address as screen name

I know it's not Adobe's or Jive's fault if someone uses his/her email address as a screen name to these forums, but in my ignorance I would think it should be very easy to prevent this from happening. As this suicidal practice seems to be becoming common amongst recent newcomers, couldn't something be done to prevent it?

OK, so if your current Apple ID using your AOL Username (like johndoe), then you need to log onto Manage your Apple ID and EDIT that AOL Username to a valid email address: Apple - My Apple ID
If you have an AOL email address (like [email protected]), and you are not using that as another Apple ID, you can change the AOL Username Apple ID to that. Otherwise, you can change it to any valid email address (which you will have to verify when you change to it).
Hope that clears it up. Post back if it doesn't!
Cheers,
GB

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AIM -- Email Address for Screen Name -- Missing

At our office we've all set up our AIM screen names using the "Use an existing e-mail address as a Screen Name" option. A new employee started this week and this option is now missing. Is there a way to still do this? Our email addresses are over 16 characters.
Thanks in advance for your help.

I found a back door to this option. Here's the post that gave me the idea:
http://journals.aol.com/journalseditor/magicsmoke/entries/2007/08/07/leave-comme nts-and-join-private-journals-using-your-e-mail-address-as-a-screen-name/2540
So if you go to www.journals.aol.com/
Click on any blog listed in the center of the screen.
Click on add a comment at the bottom of any post.
You'll hit a registration screen. Click the link to Get a Screen Name.
On the next screen, choose the 2nd option that says "Use an existing e-mail address as a Screen Name" and click Continue
Then follow the directions.
It worked perfectly. Although why AIM took it off their main registration page, I have no idea.

HT201493 How do I change an email address to a name for friends I am following?

Does anyone know how I can update email addresses to actual names? I have deleted and reinstalled the app with no luck.

If you remeber the password to that Apple ID then follow these steps
1 - Make sure you have an email address that is NOT an Apple ID
2 - Go to AppleID.Apple.com
3 - Where it reads Manage Apple ID - Sign in
Once you are signed in want to make sure the email address you are wanting to use is NOT set up as a "Recovery/Rescue" email for this account.
[To check this - Main page where you see Primary ID - below do you see the email address you want to use listed towards the bottom? Yes - Delete / No - Good ./. If made any adjustments "Save" Next on the left select "Password & Security" - Answer your security questions you set up "if you have any" then scroll towards the bottom and check to see if you see the email address you want to use. Yes - Delete / No - Good] <-> Also you can change your password on this page as well. Any adjustments made "Save"
Once this is done go back to the main page where you should read "Primary ID" and change the email address that is showing to the new email address youo want. "Save" Done
I learned this not to long ago and worked for me. Hope this helps you!

When emails arrive they arrive as email addresses and not names

When emails arrive they arrive as email addresses and not names from my contact list.
What gives?
Thanks

ok well I think I can confirm your theory by the fact that the few names that do show up are from PCs (where people's names are always entered in).
Generally, most people enter their name in the Name field for their email account settings with the email client used on their computer, but not always. This is entirely up to the sender and is not required.
90% of everyone else on my contact list is using mobile phones where names are not used like they are on PCs or smart phones.
The very same applies to the email client used on a cell phone. I can remove my first and last name from the Name field for my email account settings, or I can enter Allan or ALLAN only and if I use ALL CAPS for my first name or for my first and last name, the name I've entered in the Name field will appear in ALL CAPS when the email is received. If I remove my name from the name field, my email address will appear only with all sent messages.
This must mean that you too must have a lot of no name emails coming in right?
Nope, because the overwhelming majority of people that send me email have their name entered in the Name field for their email account settings with the email client used on their computer for accessing the account and with the email client on their smart phone.

Change an email address to a name in find my friends app

I have 7 entries on find my friends. All are the first names of my friends except for one. That one is an email address. I haven't been able to figure out how to change the entry to a name. Is there a way to do it? Any suggestions would be appreciated.
Darlee
iPhone 6 iOS 8.1.2

Are you referring to iMessage?
If so - it is probably because that friend has enabled sending messages / starting conversations from their email
You can toggle that off or on from
Settings - Messages - Send and Receive

Email address replacing first name in To: field

Hi All,
We have noticed two different users have sent emails today to two different recipients where the first name is replaced by the email address, for example:
An email is written to John Doe whose address is [email protected]
The email is then sent with the TO: field displaying:
To: [email protected] Doe <[email protected]>
when it is supposed to display
To: John Doe <[email protected]>
Both users affected run different versions of OSX, one running Snow Leopard and the other running Mountain Lion. We have checked the Address Book and Previous Recipients lists for both users and neither show any contacts with odd display names.
We understand that two incidents isn't a big deal however we have noticed different mail clients will save contacts based on how they are displayed in the To: field and would like to prevent this from happening again. Thanks

This is less about MX records than it is your mail server configuration.
Quite simply, your mail server doesn't know that it's supposed to accept mail for johnbutzek.com, so when it sees such a message it assumes it's supposed to relay it to another server, or bounce it if the sender isn't authenticated/trusted.
Changing the MX may be valid, but it's not going to fix the problem. If the MX record points to this server all you'll get are 'MX points back to me' errors in the postfix log.
Instead, you need to tell postfix what domain(s) it is supposed to accept mail for. RIght now it sounds like you have it set for 'server.johnbutzek.com' and that's your problem. Change it to 'johnbutzek.com' and your problem should go away.

I plugged in my husbands iphone 4 into my laptop and synced it to my laptop and phone with my apple ID. Now his phone has my email address and my name and my contacts on it! big booboo How can I change it all back to him!?

I plugged in my husbands iphone to my laptop and synced it to mine. I used my own apple ID. Big mistake. Now he has my name, email address,contacts etc on his phone and lost his... how do I correct this?

You'll have to set up his mail account again. To change the name, follow this article: iTunes: How to rename your device
After that right click on it in the device list and choose backup. A manual backup will be made, no sync process is included. When the backup is finished you should find it listed in iTunes/Edit/Preferences/Devices
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Why can't I copy contacts' email address from their name card in lync 2010

so here is the issue I have, when I need to copy someone's email addresses or their phone numbers, normally I will find them on lync, move the cursor on them, and their name card will show up, then I move cursor to their email address or their phone numbers,
right click it, there will be an option to "copy", right? but sometimes, right clicking doesn't work. that copy option just won't pop up, this issue happens randomly, I need to restart lync, then it will work again. Also, there is one thing
that's weird, after I restart lync, whatever I have copied in the clipboard will disappear, like if I press ctrl+c to copy something from word, then this issue happened, I restart lync, I can copy information in lync name card again, but all that
content I copied does not exist in clipboard anymore, I press ctrl+v, there is nothing coming out.
this is not a big problem, but it's really annoying, does anyone know why this issue happen and how to permanently? I tried to reinstall, does not work.
this issues happens with both lync 2010 32 bit on 32 bit win7 and lync 2010 64 bit on win7 64 bit.

Hi,
Please try to delete Lync user profile and information in registry.
The path of Lync user profile: <user profile>\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Communicator\
The path of Lync information in registry: HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Communicator\[email protected]
Please also make sure Lync client update to the latest version.
Best Regards,
Eason Huang
Eason Huang
TechNet Community Support

How to find the email address by display name

as title,
i can get the display name from the to, cc, bc edit box,
then i need to get the email address,
current i use object API to query: GWAccount->GWAddressBook->GWAddressBookEntrie->get_EmailAddress,get_DisplayName
but i find it is really slow when there are many contacts, example 10000.
so is there any other effective method to get the email address?

First off, you are not really doing:
GWAccount->GWAddressBook->GWAddressBookEntrie->
get_EmailAddress,get_DisplayName()
are you?
If you enter the full line, it will read in all
of the entries each time it is called.
You should break each part into an object:
gwAccount
gwBook
gwEntries
I'm not sure what you are doing.
Are you trying to compose an email?
If so, why are you not using Recipients.Resolve()?
Are you trying to get the recipients from an email?
Preston
>>> On Friday, April 16, 2010 at 1:26 AM,
hillp<[email protected]>
wrote:
> as title,
> i can get the display name from the to, cc, bc edit box,
> then i need to get the email address,
> current i use object API to query:
>
GWAccount‑>GWAddressBook‑>GWAddressBookEntrie >get_EmailAddress,get_Di
splayName
> but i find it is really slow when there are many contacts, example
> 10000.
>
> so is there any other effective method to get the email address?

IMovie and iPhoto App Store update has alternate email address for user name. how do I fix this??

The most recent updates to iPhoto and iMovie, that are in the App Store updates, has my alternate email address for my user name. I can't log into the update because I don't know the password. I have changed my user name to reflect the correct email address, but it still prompts as the alternate email address. Any ideas as how to fix??

If you have forgotten your pass work go to here:
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Geoff.

Incorrect email address for user name

My wife bought her own ipad mini yesterday.,unfortunately the user name had an incorrect email address
We have as yet been unable to change this
We are able to use safari but unable to create email account or iCloud account therefore not able to purchase from App Store,when details are entered either wrong user account or password come up
How can I reset this mistake. Many thanks Den

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EWS Managed API: Email sender name incorrect if loading properties of multiple emails and several emails have same email address (but different names)

Hi,
I have an issue using the Exchange Web Services Managed API. I'm essentially implementing an 'inbox', and am essentially using two calls:
folder.FindItems(filter, view) with the view set up with the 'idonly' property.
The returns a 'FindItemResults<>' object containing a set of items.
And then calling service.LoadPropertiesForItems(items, props), where the props contains all 'first class properties', which includes the sender details.
Now, the inbox contains several emails from the same email address but with different displaynames.
E.g. There may be one email from "Bob <[email protected]>" and another email from "Alice <[email protected]>" and another email from "Charlie <[email protected]>" etc.
The issue is that in the information that EWS returns from the call to LoadPropertiesForItems, every email ends up with the same sender name (from the first one in the list)!
i.e. When I enumerate through the returned items, the item.Sender.Name will always be"Bob" for every email where Sender.Address is [email protected]
I have debugged this with a http sniffer just to ensure that it really is the EWS coming back with this information rather than anything in the managed layer.
Is this a known issue? How can I work around this (without querying every single email for the sender name individually, as that would be too slow)?
Thanks

Hi Venkat,
Thanks for the reply.
The scenario is that the client receives emails from a (3rd-party) automated system. The email address from this automated system is always "noreply@<blah.com>", while the display name is used to differentiate the actual sender.
I suspect that this kind of system will likely become more widely used, and so for us will increase in priority (obviously its a priority for our client already)!
Just for the record, if this is a known issue do you have a bug number or equivalent for it? (I tried to search but couldn't locate it).

Same email address, different 'from' name

Hi - I would like to be able to send an email from ios to a 3rd party and choose who the recipient sees that it comes from, but use the one email address. So 1 'name' is my personal name, 1 is my business name.
I host a domain and I have sent up 2 email accounts in ios with different usernames let's say [email protected] and [email protected] [email protected] is set to divert to [email protected] on a server level, so ALL emails sent to either x or y, go to x. So I have both set up on my Mac, y doesn't get email, so I don't get double ups - when I want to send from a different user name, I just send from the other account.
Now ios has the same ability in theory and when I set it up the same way, it all works BUT the recipient receives the email from my personal name, despite me sending it from my business name???
Anyone have a fix or answer??!!
TIA!!

bbrundell wrote:
Hi there
I'm staying at a Novotel in Edinburgh. Their wireless shows up as "Orange France". The BT FON map shows it as a "single hotspot operated by a roaming partner".
While I can select "FON" from the list of providers for login, when I use my @btinternet email address as the login I am denied access.
Should I have a FON account name different from my btinternet email address. Is my FON password the same as my email password?
Thanks
Ben
Hi Ben. Welcome to the forums.
The BTFon access is via the primary email address and associated password.
Does the list of providers actually say BTFon or BTOpenzone ?
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We are now set up on icloud but now mt email address reads from my husbands name not mine. How do I change back?

You will have to log out of iCloud (in the System/iCloud preference pane) and then log back in with your iCloud ID and password.
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Associate email address with other name

Have changed name on an existing email address. However, the old name always turn up in the To: field when I write the address. How can I delete this association permanently?

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