Mailspring: NIL showing instead of address name since upgrade to 1.5.0
What operating system are you using?
windows 10
What version of Mailspring are you using?
1.5.0
Bug?
Emails are now showing NIL as the recipient/sender names since I update this morning eg.
To: NIL
TeamKinetic
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The same on ubuntu 16.04, happening since upgrade to 1.5.0 from 1.4.2
avano
on 23 Oct 2018
+1
palefire19
on 23 Oct 2018
This is also happening for me on all incoming mail since updating. Picture: 
mcescalante
on 23 Oct 2018
Happens on macOS.
gregorian-iterable
on 23 Oct 2018
FWIW i'm only seeing this on emails w/o friendly names, and only on _new_ emails.
I'm seeing expected (read: blank) behavior on emails that were indexed pre-upgrade.
jerm
on 23 Oct 2018
I'm also seeing this for emails with blank subject lines.
timdorr
on 23 Oct 2018
+1 on Mac OSX 10.14 Mojave and Mailspring 1.5.0
nfntp
on 23 Oct 2018
Duplicate of #1150
muradm
on 24 Oct 2018
Same thing on Windows 10
nemm
on 24 Oct 2018
+1 on Ubuntu 18.04, Mailspring version 1.5.0
remokon
on 24 Oct 2018
And this NIL text is used when composing / replying to such and email through mailspring. So the recipient is getting puzzled a bit: "why do you call me NIL?". On Mac, version 1.5.0.
tharvan
on 24 Oct 2018
This needs to fix asap. @bengotow agreed?
phamhung77
on 24 Oct 2018
+1 on Kubuntu 18.04, Mailspring 1.5.0
lecooliver
on 24 Oct 2018
Same issue here. Windows 10, Mailspring version 1.5.0
LukasDustee
on 24 Oct 2018
+1 Kubuntu 18.10, Mailspring 1.50.
Interestingly this happens only for some accounts, mostly for addresses without a specified name.
al2me6
on 25 Oct 2018
+1 Ubuntu 18.04 version 1.5.0
anshumansaagar
on 25 Oct 2018
+1 for Windows 10
qadir5000
on 25 Oct 2018
Same here, windows 10, mailspring v1.5.0, some senders are showing up as NIL. This didn't happen in previous versions.
DianaNites
on 25 Oct 2018
+1 Kubuntu 18.10, Mailspring 1.50.
MuTaTeD
on 26 Oct 2018
Same as MacOSx High Sierra, Mailspring Version 1.5.0. This is really annoying and non-user-friendly.
etekinbas
on 26 Oct 2018
I have raised a PR https://github.com/Foundry376/Mailspring/pull/1176 , which seems to sort out the issue. I am unsure whether this is a proper solution or not as I have not explored the codebase properly.
eclipsed-ninja
on 26 Oct 2018
Hey folks! Thanks for reporting this—I've narrowed this down to a patch to libetpan I made to add support for Proton Bridge (which uses some nonstandard IMAP header formatting). I'm going to revert this and ship a patch release this weekend.
bengotow
on 27 Oct 2018
@bengotow I've updated to 1.5.1 and still seeing a lot of NIL as name (previous emails), do i need to do a fresh setup again ?
eclipsed-ninja
on 29 Oct 2018
@bengotow I've updated to 1.5.1 and still seeing a lot of NIL as name (previous emails), do i need to do a fresh setup again ?
I had to go to Manage Accounts > Rebuild Cache... in order for the fix to work. Can confirm the NIL issue is resolved on v1.5.2 on Mac 10.13.6
twillmott-goji
on 8 Nov 2018
Hey folks—thanks for all the feedback about this. It sounds like the 1.5.1 upgrade and rebuilding the email cache do the trick. I'm going to close this! Happy holidays—
bengotow
on 30 Dec 2018
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Hey folks! Thanks for reporting this—I've narrowed this down to a patch to libetpan I made to add support for Proton Bridge (which uses some nonstandard IMAP header formatting). I'm going to revert this and ship a patch release this weekend.