370068 - Make the to address of my accounts as a default for a reply

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Thunderbird :: Message Compose Window, defect)

Description

[Nobuyoshi KAMEI]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; ja; rv:1.8.0.9) Gecko/20070131 Fedora/1.5.0.9-2.fc6 Firefox/1.5.0.9 pango-text
Build Identifier: 1.5.0.9 (20070130)

I have multiple account settings and most of them share the same "Global Inbox".
As a result, all the incoming mail ( to-address are vary among my accounts ) will be placed in a single "Global Inbox".
When I hit [Reply], a compose dialog will appear bearing "From" address with a default which is equivalent to the "Global Inbox" default account.

But please consider.
The mail I am replying is addressed to another address that I have.

Of course, I can manually choose correct my "From" address from the drop-down list before I send out the reply.  But usually, I forgot to do that and the reply will be sent with unfamilier "From" address to the recipient.

I would rather sent the reply with the "From" address that s/he addressed to reach me.

Could you make the "To" address in the incoming mail as a default selection in the "From" address in the reply dialog?


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Configure multiple accounts and all of them sharing the same "Global Inbox".
2.  Receive an mail addressed to one of the accounts which is not the default account of the "Global Inbox".
3.  Hit "Reply" to raise a "Compose" dialog.


Actual Results:  
4.  See the "From" line and learn the "Global Inbox" account is selected

Expected Results:  
"To" address of the incoming mail is selected.

Comment 1

[David :Bienvenu]

We do this already - we chose the identity based on the server the mail was received by, and the to/cc address. So something might be wrong with your setup. Do you see any messages on the error console? Have you tried 2.0 beta 2?

Comment 2

[Nobuyoshi KAMEI]

Thank you.

I noticed this seemed to be fixed in Ver. 1.5.0.10 (20070302).

I am now using below version.


Name        : thunderbird                  Relocations: (not relocatable)
Version     : 1.5.0.10                          Vendor: Red Hat, Inc.
Release     : 1.fc6                         Build Date: Fri Mar  2 23:54:16 2007
Install Date: Wed Mar  7 14:50:38 2007      Build Host: ls20-bc1-14.build.redhat.com
Group       : Applications/Internet         Source RPM: thunderbird-1.5.0.10-1.fc6.src.rpm
Size        : 41123470                         License: MPL
Signature   : DSA/SHA1, Tue Mar  6 03:37:43 2007, Key ID b44269d04f2a6fd2
Packager    : Red Hat, Inc. <http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla>
URL         : http://www.mozilla.org/projects/thunderbird/
Summary     : Mozilla Thunderbird mail/newsgroup client
Description :
Mozilla Thunderbird is a standalone mail and newsgroup client.

Comment 3

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

->WFM (FIXED is only used when know code changes resolved the issue)