Yosemite Mail - wrong name in "To" field

Just upgraded to Yosemite on my iMac & Mail had a headache. I have access to 3 mail accounts - 2 are gmail and the other is from my own web address. To explain my problem, I'll call these accounts G1, G2 & Web. Under Mail>Preferences>Accounts, the accounts are listed in the sequence of G1, G2 then Web. When I look at the mail overview page from any of these 3 accounts, the "To" field replaces the account name with the Web short name. However, in the mail itself, the G1, G2 or Web names are shown correctly. The "To" field was correctly shown before I upgraded but the upgrade has affected all the existing mails as well as all the Junk, Trash, etc mailboxes. I have no idea where to start. Has anyone any ideas. Thanks.

I've sorted it. Having looked at a similar issue that someone had with iCloud, I checked Contacts and, sure enough, it had become corrupted. The Web name (see above) had my other account names dragged in. Once I deleted these inclusions, the Mail "To" fields got the correct name.

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David,
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Is it possible to get the name of a field (or method) somehow via the class in which it is declared?
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Assume you have class FooSimple with the field String firstName.
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Best Regards.

Well, I think the discussion is going in a wrong direction because the original issue was not to discuss if it is worth coding some helper classes or a framework or that like. Let me bring it back to my original point.
Basically you can reduce my original question to this:
Currently it is possible to use the reflection API on a class level without specifying the name of the class with a string constant.
My issue is, that I think it would be a nice extension for Java, if the same would be possible for field variables of a Java class. Currently the only way you can do this is by specifying the field variable with a string constant.
Let me bring some motivations which brought me to this issue.
Assume you have an entity bean which represents a DB table and you use Java Persistence (either JPA or something like Hibernate). Then you would have a class looking like this (very simple sample to make this reply shorter).
@Entity
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What is not so nice is the fact, that you use the name of the class and the name of the field variables hardcoded to construct the query. Now you could think that basically this information is part of your entity class. First you start with the name of the class (i.e. the table name) to decouple this hardcoding.
You could write instead:
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Conceptually it is just to go one level deeper, i.e.
first level is to get the name of a class
second level is to get the name of the field variable of a class.
Another sample would be, if you want to code something by using reflection. You have perfectly access to the reflection API starting at the class level like Person.class.allTheNiceReflectionMethods. There is no need to specify the class first with a string constant first, you directly start with the class, you can even be generic and just work on the Class.class level and still have access to all these nice methods to get out the information you need.
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My very simple issues is, that I think it would be nice to have the same comfort not only on a class level but also on the level of field variables, nothing more, nothing less.
To be honest, I have not browsed the forum yet if such an issue was already raised by other people (I will do this now), but somehow it is hard to imagine, that I am the first one.
Best regards.

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