313307 - Multiple email accounts sending only from one account

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Thunderbird :: Message Compose Window, defect)

Description

[Rick K]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win 9x 4.90; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050915 Firefox/1.0.7
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win 9x 4.90; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050915 Firefox/1.0.7

I have multiple gmail accounts.  Three personal and one for a monthly
newsletter.  When I click tools,  account settings,  and change the default to
the email account for the newsletter, it only changes the name but uses my
personal email address for sending the emails.  I also tried it by changing it
when I click on write and it also only changes the name but still sends the
email from my personal email account.  This was ok on 10/6.  Not sure If this
happened after I got the newer version.  It was ok with 1.0.6.  

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.I tried by changing the sender name using, tools, account settings, cchange
the default user. Look ok until you send it. After send you find out it was sent
using other account
2.Tried by changing sender name at top of compose with same results as above. 
Looks ok but when you send it it comes from my other account. 
3.

Actual Results:  
I also went to the email server and found out that it was sent from my personal
account.  It should have been sent from my newsletter account.

Expected Results:  
It should have sent the emails from the proper accounts selected.

Outlook 2003 BlueTB  theme

Comment 1

[redraider89]

Until you abandon the global "Outgoing Server (SMTP)" setting in the Account Settings dialog box, where its the only place where it has a place to enter a User name and password, this will not be fixed. I don't know why, after being around for at least 10 years, this has not been corrected so that the "Outgoing server (SMTP)" is an option that can be set at each email account setting instead of globally.

Comment 2

[Rick K]

Attachment: Multiple accounts fix, Mozilla Thunderbird

This problem has been corrected.

Open Mozilla Thunderbird

left click on tools

left click on accounts

go down to Outgoing server

add your outgoing server information for the other email accounts

then click on the account that needs changed.

go to the drop down menu at Outgoing server and change it to the correct one.

Presto, it will now send the emails from the proper email account.

I feel this discussion is done and the issue should be closed.

Thank you,


Rick

Comment 3

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

WFM per reporter