# Real names not showing up in email notifications

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/real-names-not-showing-up-in-email-notifications/15563>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Created:** [2014年五月12日 14:46 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/real-names-not-showing-up-in-email-notifications/15563 "2014-05-12T14:46:42Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 7\
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**Author:** ![tobiaseigen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/tobiaseigen/32/539204_2.png) [@tobiaseigen](https://meta.discourse.org/u/tobiaseigen)\
**Post date:** [2014年五月12日 14:46 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/real-names-not-showing-up-in-email-notifications/15563/1 "2014-05-12T14:46:42Z")

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Real names are not showing up in email notifications. Instead it shows the username of the user who wrote the post. This seems to be a bug since elsewhere in discourse it displays the real name when that feature is turned on in admin.

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**Author:** ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)\
**Post date:** [2014年五月12日 20:25 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/real-names-not-showing-up-in-email-notifications/15563/2 "2014-05-12T20:25:51Z")

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Probably an oversight. I agree that if full name display is on, that should affect email notifications too.

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**Author:** ![sam](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/sam/32/102149_2.png) [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)\
**Post date:** [2014年十二月30日 06:55 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/real-names-not-showing-up-in-email-notifications/15563/3 "2014-12-30T06:55:58Z")

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I am not sure how I feel about this, but I don’t feel its a bug, more a feature request.

If we did this, do we also include title? We would need to be super careful with styling.

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**Author:** ![downey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/downey/32/166878_2.png) [@downey](https://meta.discourse.org/u/downey)\
**Post date:** [2014年十二月31日 16:10 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/real-names-not-showing-up-in-email-notifications/15563/4 "2014-12-31T16:10:17Z")

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> [@sam](#):
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> If we did this, do we also include title? We would need to be super careful with styling.

I would expect it to look “just like” it looks on the web site, or at least as much as possible, so people easily can identify the writer of the reply/topic.

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**Author:** ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)\
**Post date:** [2014年十二月31日 19:19 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/real-names-not-showing-up-in-email-notifications/15563/5 "2014-12-31T19:19:46Z")

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Agreed, a shared function that renders out identically in the html email as it does on the site itself.

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**Author:** ![Ashwani\_Kumar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/ashwani_kumar/32/328227_2.png) [@Ashwani\_Kumar](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Ashwani_Kumar)\
**Post date:** [2023年十月25日 13:27 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/real-names-not-showing-up-in-email-notifications/15563/6 "2023-10-25T13:27:27Z")

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这个已更新吗？

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**Author:** ![Jonathan5](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/jonathan5/32/197134_2.png) [@Jonathan5](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Jonathan5)\
**Post date:** [2023年十月25日 14:19 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/real-names-not-showing-up-in-email-notifications/15563/7 "2023-10-25T14:19:25Z")

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很高兴能参与到这个话题的“复活”中，确认邮件通知会显示用户名和真实姓名（我的论坛将“优先在用户体验中显示用户名”设置为未勾选——不知道这是否有影响）。

编辑：邮件看起来是这样的：[Prioritizing full name vs username in the UX - #11 by techAPJ](https://meta.discourse.org/t/prioritizing-full-name-vs-username-in-the-ux/45415/11?u=jonathan5)