Bug 27643

Summary:	amelioration request for thunderbird
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	Jean-François Bachelet <jfbachelet>
Component:	RPM Packages	Assignee:	Mageia Bug Squad <bugsquad>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID	QA Contact:
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	Normal	CC:	ouaurelien
Version:	7
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Source RPM:	thunderbird (all versions)	CVE:
Status comment:

Description Jean-François Bachelet 2020-11-21 15:25:11 CET

Description of problem:
it's impossible to force thunderbird to reply an email with the email destination address as sender address.
I can't find any configuration option for this and thunderbird reply always using the default address entered at the first launch of thunderbird.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
all versions

How reproducible:
just reply an email and see

Steps to Reproduce:
1. receive an email for machin@truc.com 
2. want to reply to it, thunderbird forcibly uses defaultaddress@somewhere.com instead of the wanted sender address machin@truc.com
3. need to not forget to manually change the sender address to the right one before sending or you have to re-send it after editing.
4. a lot of time and bandwith is wasted in vain. especially when you have a dozen or hundred emails to send/reply every day.
5. GRRR!

Solution : 

Add the option to thunderbird to set the sender address in preferences for mailing-lists to ensure that the right sender address is used when replying or writing to it.

Comment 1 Aurelien Oudelet 2020-11-21 15:52:34 CET

(In reply to Jean-François Bachelet from comment #0)
> 
> Steps to Reproduce:
> 1. receive an email for machin@truc.com 
> 2. want to reply to it, thunderbird forcibly uses
> defaultaddress@somewhere.com instead of the wanted sender address
> machin@truc.com
> 
For that I understand:
Have 2 accounts on Thunderbird: Account 1 and Account B.
Your default mail account in Thunderbird is Account A from fournisseur A.

1. Receive an email on xyz@fournisseurB.fr on your mail from fournisseur B.
2. Use inline "Answer" in Thunderbird GUI.

This opens a new message window with your xyz@fournisseurB.fr email address.
I can't go further. Steps above not reproduced.

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Furthermore, Thunderbird is developed from Mozilla, not by us at Mageia.
We can't afford to edit all free software to introduce such feature even if they are legitimate.
I close this bug, INVALID.

If you do have a bug on your Thunderbird client installation,
I suggest you to report "upstream" here:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/describecomponents.cgi?product=Thunderbird

CC: (none) => ouaurelien
Resolution: (none) => INVALID
Status: NEW => RESOLVED