Sender address of a reply is not always derived from To: xy of the original mail
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(Thunderbird :: Message Compose Window, defect)
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(Not tracked)
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(Reporter: software.v9onn, Unassigned)
Details
User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:91.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/91.0
Steps to reproduce:
Receive emails from an email alias provider:
https://simplelogin.io/docs/getting-started/reverse-alias/
In the source of the mail, the receiver (my) address in the TO-field is not my regular mail, but an alias address:
From: "My Name" <reverse-alias@simplelogin.co>
TO: alias@simplelogin.co (This is not my thunderbird account address)
Actual results:
When hitting the reply button, the sender is not set to alias@aleeas.com, but to the standard sender of the account.
Expected results:
When hitting the reply button, sender and receiver of the reply should always be derived from the FROM:... and TO:... of the original email. If the receiver address TO:... of the original email is not known in thunderbird, it takes the standard address for the account. That is not working for alias mail providers.
User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:91.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/91.0
Steps to reproduce:
Receive emails from an email alias provider:
https://simplelogin.io/docs/getting-started/reverse-alias/
In the source of the mail, the receiver (my) address in the TO-field is not my regular mail, but an alias address:
From: "My Name" <reverse-alias@simplelogin.co>
TO: alias@simplelogin.co (This is not my thunderbird account address)
Actual results:
When hitting the reply button, the sender is not set to alias@simplelogin.co, but to the standard sender of the account.
Expected results:
When hitting the reply button, sender and receiver of the reply should always be derived from the FROM:... and TO:... of the original email. If the receiver address TO:... of the original email is not known in thunderbird, it takes the standard address for the account. That is not working for alias mail providers.
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Comment 2•4 years ago
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You're not always directly addressed (say bcc) so it can't work like that in general.
We have an account setting "Reply from this identity when delivery header match:" which you can use to enable it for that domain.
Unfortunately you cannot reply with always the same address in alias emails. See the graphic how it works:
https://simplelogin.io/docs/getting-started/reverse-alias/
You have an alias and an associated reverse-alias address and you can have many of them for multiple purposes, let's say one for friends, one for banking....
So there should be an option to take always the FROM: and TO: of the email for replies, just flip sender and receiver. If you get a mail over bcc take this, should be no difference?
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Comment 4•4 years ago
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That is what the feature I mentioned does.
If a TB account gets a mail from:
reversealias1@simple.com it should reply from alias1@simple.com
if it gets a mail from:
reversealias2@simple.com it should reply from alias2@simple.com
and you can have hundreds of aliases.
This is not what the option does, it replies always with the same address.
I am not yet convinced why TB does not simply exchange FROM and TO.
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