558495 - Wrong REPLY-TO address default for subsequent new accounts.

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 530142

(Thunderbird :: Account Manager, defect)

Description

[Dan Pernokis]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.3) Gecko/20100401 Firefox/3.6.3
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.9) Gecko/20100317 Thunderbird/3.0.4

In Thunderbird, when running ADD MAIL ACCOUNT, and this is second or later account, the REPLY-TO address defaults to the reply-to address of whatever account the scroll bar is sitting on.  It should default to the email address being added (), or to blank/null (acceptable).

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Create at least two email accounts, and give each a unique reply-to address, such as:  [e-mail] and [e-mail]
2.Set the scroll bar on one of these accounts.
3.Run ADD MAIL ACCOUNT and enter something recognizable to create the account.
Actual Results:  
Recall where the scroll bar was.  Check REPLY-TO of the account just added.  It will be from the account with the scroll bar.

Expected Results:  
My preference is for the REPLY-TO address to be the same as the email address being entered.  Acceptable default would be to leave it blank.

The REPLY-TO address should NOT capture info from any other account or be related to any other account, unless deliberately keyed in.

Prediction:  This bug will explain problems where "replies" are mysteriously going astray.  The replies are going exactly where they are being told to go -- but it's to the wrong address and the sender hasn't noticed.

Comment 1

[Nathan Tuggy (:tuggyne)]

This looks like bug 530142, which is slightly more general -- roughly speaking, reply-to addresses are accidentally copied whenever focus is changed from one account to another. Feel free to reopen if that's not so.