640181 - Possibility to alias email addresses in address book for replying

Status: NEW

(Thunderbird :: Address Book, enhancement)

Description

[bugzilla]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; de; rv:1.9.2.15) Gecko/20110303 blub
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; de; rv:1.9.2.15) Gecko/20110303 Lightning/1.0b2 Thunderbird/3.1.9

Often email account come with different alias like:
[e-mail]
[e-mail]
[e-mail]

Now if people are writing an email to one of the other aliases which are not the present default for this account in tb a reply to all recipients results in a copy being sent to oneself, since tb thinks that the alias is a different person. 

In would be nice if the address book would be able to alias different email addresses so tb can avoid unnecessary messages. Also this aliasing could be exploited in the search. 

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Ludovic Hirlimann [:Usul]]

Can you define Alias ?

I'm a bit confused by your bug description too.

Comment 2

[bugzilla]

alias in the sense, that tb does not discriminate between several emails but treats them as if they were the same.

Comment 3

[Ludovic Hirlimann [:Usul]]

(In reply to comment #2)
> alias in the sense, that tb does not discriminate between several emails but
> treats them as if they were the same.

I still don't understand your bug. Can you just tell me what I need to do to see it ?

Comment 4

[bugzilla]

Hi Ludovic,

you need to get an email adress with to alias i.e
[e-mail]
[e-mail]
which are in reality only one inbox. Now send an email from an arbitrary third email adress
[e-mail]
to [e-mail].
Asume your standard profile in thunderbird to which you receive this email is [e-mail]
Now press "reply all" and reply. You will get all further reply to erverybody twice since tb didn't know that 
[e-mail]
[e-mail]
are in fact one and the same adress and thus also replied to 
[e-mail]
although this was not needed.

Is it clear now?

Comment 5

[Nikolay Shopik]

That is something annoy me few times, then I have to delete few reply-to: addresses to no spam people with duplicate messages.

Comment 6

[Jim Porter (:squib)]

It sounds like comment 0 would be resolved by adding an identity for each of the aliased email addresses.

Comment 7

[bugzilla]

(In reply to comment #6)
> It sounds like comment 0 would be resolved by adding an identity for each of
> the aliased email addresses.
Only if there would be a way to tell, that two or more identities are the same.

Comment 8

[Jim Porter (:squib)]

What do you mean? I have several addresses that are aliases of one another, and I just added them as other identities for that account, and everything works out just fine.

Comment 9

[github00]

I too have the same issue.
I'm used AWS WorkMail to create a master email account, followed by adding email aliases.
With AWS WorkMail web based email client, I'm able to send/reply to emails using the alias email addresses to my Gmail account.
So I know they work; and I can see the email's From field shows the alias email.

I tried to use Thunderbird's Manage Identities window to add the email aliases; and composed an email with the From Field holding my email alias. The email was successfully sent to my Gmail account. But the received email's From field shows the master email, not the alias.

This also is reproducible when replying to emails using Thunderbird.
Using my Gmail to send an email targeting the alias email, Thunderbird shows the email alias correctly in the From field.
But when sending a reply email using the email alias, then received email shows the master email address, not the alias.

Windows 11 Pro (22H2 22621.155)
Thunderbird 102.10.0 (64-bit)

Comment 10

[github00]

I want to revert my earlier comment.
I found out the AWS WorkMail alias (proxy address) is not compatible with any web client.
I can receive email from the alias, but when attempting to send email using the alias, the system automatically reverts to the master email address.

Only the Amazon AWS Web Client is allowed to send alias emails. So the receiver will see the correct alias in the email's From field.
Thunderbird, Windows 11 Mail app, Outlook.com, Outlook Mobile app, and Outlook 2021 desktop is not supported.