[davidt84]

> Issue a warning or otherwise make it clear before sending when a contact name differs from the email's official sender name.

An email [address] does not have an "official sender name", so it is impossible for anyone to do what the author is suggesting Google should do.

The behaviour is potentially unintuitive, but also an almost inevitable result of how email has always worked.

[doubled112]

A lot of people don't realize that any sort of verification for email isn't part of email, but came later. SPF and DKIM help, but they're relatively new and still not required.

Wasn't that long ago you could set your FROM header to whatever you wanted and be pretty sure the email would be received.

Billy Mays with OxyClean here and you can't be 100% sure I'm not! This next email trick will shock you.