582179 - RFC 3798 violation: From of message header of the MDN must contain address of the person for whom the message disposition notification is being issued

Status: NEW

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, defect)

Description

[Maxime Thépault]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; fr; rv:1.9.2.7) Gecko/20100713 Firefox/3.6.7
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; fr; rv:1.9.2.7) Gecko/20100713 Lightning/1.0b2 Thunderbird/3.1.1

Hi,

One day, I notice that all return receipts are sent with default account, not with virtual identity... (yes, I use virtual identity extension) :
https://absorb.it/virtual-id

Is it possible to fix that ? Or too complex too change that mecanism ?

Thank you very much for your work ;)

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Someone send me a mail with return receipt ask
2. This is not my real account, but virtual identity, but I receive emails into my real account
3. I click to send return receipt
Actual Results:  
Sender address used to return receipt is my real account, not the virtual identity... so it don't use "To:" to respond, but the default account into Thunderbird.

Expected Results:  
If someone send me a mail to "[e-mail]", and my real account is "[e-mail]", it should send return receipt with "[e-mail]" account (virtual), not default account "[e-mail]".

I hope it is possible...

In fact, for the moment, I can't use return receipt.

Comment 1

[Ludovic Hirlimann [:Usul]]

I'm pretty sure we already have a bug on file about this. I can't find it right now (and I might be wrong too). Pasquale can you have a look ?

Comment 2

[[:Aureliano Buendía]]

(In reply to comment #1)
> I'm pretty sure we already have a bug on file about this. I can't find it right
> now (and I might be wrong too). Pasquale can you have a look ?

I can't find any dupe.

xref bug #87987

This seems a violation of RFC 3798 (  http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3798#section-3 ) states: "The From field of the message header of the MDN *must* contain the address of the person for whom the message disposition notification is being issued." 

At this moment TB don't implement an From editable function (as in bug #87987), then this bug is depend by #87987

I think that the title is inaccurate because the issue is generally not related to use of "virtual identity" extension.

Anyway I inspect with better accuracy bugzilla from dupes next time.

Comment 3

[Ben Bucksch (:BenB)]

> At this moment TB don't implement an From editable function (as in bug #87987),
> then this bug is depend by #87987

The notifications are automatic, so that's not relevant.

Note that mail servers may have many email addresses going to one account, so running this situation is both common and independent of any Thunderbird features or extensions.