# Show Full Names in Emailed Previous Replies
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/show-full-names-in-emailed-previous-replies/97165
**Category:** Feature
**Created:** [9월 14, 2018, 5:38오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/show-full-names-in-emailed-previous-replies/97165 "2018-09-14T05:38:22Z")
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### Author:  [@jmana9](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jmana9)
#### Post date: [9월 14, 2018, 5:38오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/show-full-names-in-emailed-previous-replies/97165/1 "2018-09-14T05:38:22Z")
The users of my forum want real names pretty much everywhere. I prioritize real names, but when previous replies are sent by email, only the usernames appear:
Is it possible to change this myself using the template editor? I suspect this is a lower level setting than what can be modified with the editor.
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [9월 14, 2018, 8:13오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/show-full-names-in-emailed-previous-replies/97165/2 "2018-09-14T08:13:02Z")
That doesn’t look like our normal email formatting to me?
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### Author:  [@jmana9](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jmana9)
#### Post date: [9월 14, 2018, 1:27오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/show-full-names-in-emailed-previous-replies/97165/3 "2018-09-14T13:27:41Z")
I’m on v2.2.0.beta1 +4 and I don’t think I’ve modified any part of the previous replies template - I don’t actually know where I would do that. That screenshot was taken from Gmail, and it looks the same to my eyes in Thunderbird.
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### Author:  [@riking](https://meta.discourse.org/u/riking)
#### Post date: [9월 16, 2018, 6:10오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/show-full-names-in-emailed-previous-replies/97165/4 "2018-09-16T18:10:28Z")
That’s the text-only email format, which contains the post markdown. Fixing it for the prefer real names setting is valid.
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### Author:  [@jmana9](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jmana9)
#### Post date: [9월 17, 2018, 4:52오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/show-full-names-in-emailed-previous-replies/97165/5 "2018-09-17T16:52:47Z")
It seems odd to me that both my Gmail account (in IE and Firefox) and a different email account in Thunderbird display the plain text version over the HTML. I receive lots of HTML email messages in both places. Using the Gmail app on my iPad, it displays the HTML version.
I temporarily removed the customizations I made to the User Posted Email Template to see if maybe something I did there was to blame. However, Gmail still did not display HTML even with the defaults. Neither did the account I use in Thunderbird.
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [9월 18, 2018, 2:44오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/show-full-names-in-emailed-previous-replies/97165/6 "2018-09-18T02:44:26Z")
> [@jmana9](#):
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> both my Gmail account (in IE and Firefox) and a different email account in Thunderbird display the plain text version over the HTML
This is very weird and I would not expect that to be happening.
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### Author:  [@jmana9](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jmana9)
#### Post date: [9월 19, 2018, 2:31오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/show-full-names-in-emailed-previous-replies/97165/7 "2018-09-19T14:31:17Z")
HTML issues aside, is showing real names in previous responses something that is likely to be changed in a future release?
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [9월 20, 2018, 3:41오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/show-full-names-in-emailed-previous-replies/97165/8 "2018-09-20T03:41:16Z")
I am unclear, I can’t tell based on the strange screenshot you posted. But for full HTML emails, it should respect the site settings, yes.