430177 - Could not reply to original sender (From:) when ML inserts "Reply-To"

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 77304

(Thunderbird :: Message Compose Window, defect)

Description

[Mirko Dölle]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; de; rv:1.8.1.12) Gecko/20080201 Firefox/2.0.0.12
Build Identifier: Thunderbird Version 2.0.0.12 (20080213)

When receiving mails from a mailing list which inserts a "reply-to" field into the header to allow people to reply to the list by default, Thunderbird does not allow to reply only to the original sender -- I have to delete the "reply-to" address and type in the "from:" address by hand.

In short:

Subject: My first mail to the mailing list
From: [e-mail]
Reply-To: [e-mail]
To: [e-mail]


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open mail with "reply-to" field set by a mailing list
2. Click on "Reply" icon or right-click on the message text field, select "Reply to sender only" (sorry, translated from German "Antwort nur an Absender")
3. Thunderbird opens new mail composer window, auto-inserts the "reply-to" address in the "to" field, not the "from" address.
4. Right-click on the message text field, select "Reply to all"
5. Thunderbird opens new mail composer window, but only auto-inserts the "reply-to" address into the "to" field, there is no mail sent to the "from" address.
Actual Results:  
When using "Reply", "Reply to sender only" or "Reply to all", Thunderbird does only auto-insert the "reply-to" address into the mail composer window.

Expected Results:  
When using the "Reply" button, Thunderbird auto-insert the "reply-to" address into the "to" field (this is the current behaviour).

When selecting "Reply to sender only" by right-clicking the message text field instead, it should auto-insert the "from" address into the "to" field.

When selecting "Reply to all" by right-clicking the message text field, it should both auto-insert the "reply-to" address and the "from" address as "to" fields.

This report might sound simmilar to Bug 45715 or Bug 280851, but it's different. The first one is about resent-adresses, the later about using a reply-to address as sender.