1052075 - Reply no longer selects correct identity

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Thunderbird :: Message Compose Window, defect)

Description

[Lenko]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/31.0 (Beta/Release)
Build ID: 20140715214327

Steps to reproduce:

Bug originally noticed on Linux x64, KDE.

Assumed: There is an account with multiple identities. For example, there are identities myname@domain and info@domain where myname@domain is the default identity.

1) Receive a message sent to identity info@domain.
2) Select message and press Ctrl+R (shortcut for Reply) or right-click "Reply to sender only", etc.


Actual results:

The "From" field in the message compose window is populated with the defaul identity (in this case, myname@domain).


Expected results:

The "From" field in the message compose window should be populated with the identity to which the email was sent (in this case, info@domain).

Comment 1

[Lenko]

After comparing to newly recreated account settings, I discovered the reason for this behavior.

If the prefs.js file contain the entry 'user_pref("mail.account.account1.identities", "id1");' where account1 is the "Local Folders" account, the "id1" identity will always be used to reply to messages from within "Local Folders". This overrides the automatic identity matching.

(In this case, "id1" happens to be also the default identity of a non-"Local Folders" account and this created some confusion on my part.)

I'm not sure why the "Local Folders" account got an "identities" property - it's definitely not possible to accomplish this via the UI (maybe it was possible in an old version of Thunderbird?)

Suggestion: Ignore the "identities" property for the "Local Folders" account.

Comment 2

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

Lenko, can you still reporoduce?

Comment 3

[Phoenix]

Resolved per whiteboard