1018368 - Default address is not used on reply when there is no 'to' address

Status: UNCONFIRMED

(Thunderbird :: Message Compose Window, defect)

Description

[u424271]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:32.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/32.0 (Beta/Release)
Build ID: 20140530030202

Steps to reproduce:

An email arrives from a mailing list to which I am subscribed.
The "to" field appears as the mailing list address (i.e. not my personal address subscribed to the list).
I click reply



Actual results:

The "from" and "reply-to" fields are automatically filled but not by the address of the default account


Expected results:

The default account should have been used to reply to the email

Comment 1

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

So what account is selected? Please attach a sample as .eml

Comment 2

[u424271]

The account I first added to Thunderbird - probably numbered 1 or 0 in some internal database. The attached .eml file was delivered to me at j*@cam.ac.uk. When I click reply - j*@gmail.com is the email in the from field.

The .eml file doesn't contain j*@cam.ac.uk but is linked to the account number. I feel the address is being used instead of the account number by TB to choose which email address appears in FROM:

Comment 3

[u424271]

Attachment: message.eml

Comment 4

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

IIRC in case there is no direct matching email 
 - for imap the default account for the server the folder the messages is stored in
 - for pop, the account that matches X-Account-Key. In your case, "X-Account-Key: account13"

Comment 5

[u424271]

Looking at the source of some other emails:
account13 is j*@cam.ac.uk
account2 is j*@gmail.com - this is the one that seems to be used if there is no direct matching email

Comment 6

[WADA:World Anti-bad-Duping Agency]

If "fall back to defaualt identity of default account" fails, Tb currently falls back to "identity of first defined account".
    f"irst defined account" in this context = first account in mail.accountmanager.accounts

Is "default account" and "default identity of the default account" correctly defined?
    mail.accountmanager.defaultaccount = account#
    first identty in mail.account.account#.identities

A workaound.
   If "default account" and "default identity of the default account" is correctly set,
   move the account at  top of mail.accountmanager.accounts
.