450103 - Hitting "reply" on a message sends mail to myself (Uses To: instead of From: or Reply-To:)

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 377998

(Thunderbird :: Message Compose Window, defect)

Description

[Daryl Biberdorf]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X 10.4; en-US; rv:1.9) Gecko/2008061004 Firefox/3.0
Build Identifier: Thunderbird version 2.0.0.16 (20080707)

Person A receives an email sent by Person B. Person A clicks reply, but the address used as the To: of the reply is that of Person A. Thus, clicking reply sends email to Person A, not Person B as intended.

Both persons A and B are using Firefox 2.0.0.16 on Mac OS X PPC. I am unsure whether it happens with other platforms.

The following email was sent by Person B to Person A and demonstrates the problem when replied to. (Email addresses have been altered to reflect person A/B to avoid spam.)

Return-Path: <[e-mail]>
Delivered-To: [e-mail]
Received: (qmail 24319 invoked by uid 503); 11 Aug 2008 13:27:07 -0000
Delivered-To: [e-mail]
Received: (qmail 23917 invoked by uid 503); 11 Aug 2008 13:26:51 -0000
Received: from unknown (HELO ibook-g4.local) ([e-mail]@70.255.142.36)
  by server262.com with ESMTPA; 11 Aug 2008 13:26:51 -0000
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>
Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2008 08:26:46 -0500
From: Person B <[e-mail]>
User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.16 (Macintosh/20080707)
MIME-Version: 1.0
To: "Person A" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: Table
References: <[e-mail]>
In-Reply-To: <[e-mail]>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

Doesn't it say 5 feet?

D

DBB wrote:
> Still planning on building one, but maybe this is of interests:
> http://www.walmart.com/catalog/product.do?product_id=4328473&sourceid=34293606632940282124 
> 
> 
> Note that it's only 6 feet long.




Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Send an email from Thunderbird OS X 
2. Recipient using Thunderbird hits reply

Actual Results:  
To: address is that of the original recipient

Expected Results:  
To: address is that of the original SENDER.

Comment 1

[rsx11m]

This appears to be bug 377998, which is fixed for Thunderbird 3.0.

Since it is not quite sure from your description if the two identities are
mapped to the same account or are in the same domain, please check if one of
the scenarios in that bug report matches your situation. Also, if you can't reproduce it in the Shredder Alpha or trunk nightly builds, the issue was
likely fixed in that bug.

Comment 2

[Daryl Biberdorf]

It sounds like this is a duplicate of bug 377998, as you indicate. (I was unable to find that bug in my searches.) Both email addresses are in the same domain, and both email addresses exist as identities on the machines involved.

I'll try the Alpha release ASAP.