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.

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hillp<[email protected]>
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> then i need to get the email address,
> current i use object API to query:
>
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> 10000.
>
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