On 09/11/2023 09:11, Terry Coles wrote:
On 09/11/2023 08:37, Peter Merchant wrote:
Can anyone suggest a solution. This is on Kubuntu 22.04 with T-bird 115.4.1.
I have 3 email addresses on it:
petermerch...@hotmail.com
p_v_merch...@yahoo.com
madsmaddad@netscape,net
in that order.
Whenever I try to reply to an email, it always puts up the yahoo address as the
sender. For awhile I had changed the yahoo configuration to have a reply-to
address of the hotmail address, but that just prevented me sending replies from
the yahoo address, so I had to change the sender address manually. I have now
taken that out but it still wants to send from the yahoo address.
Peter,
I'm not sure what is going on here. The above three addresses are clearly three
different mailboxes, since they are on three different servers. As such they
should appear in the left-hand pane of Thunderbird as three 'tabs' with right
arrows ( > ) which turn to down arrows ( \/ ) when clicked on.
Is that right?
If so, then replying to a message that appears in one of those tabs would
normally have the receiving address as the sender. However, this behaviour
changes if you have any Identities set up in the Account Settings. In that
case, the reply would be sent from whatever Identity you have set up, unless
there wasn't a matching entry.
Do you have any identities set up for any of these accounts? If you do, what
happens if you click on the down arrow in From field at the top of the message
that you are composing?
You are correct about the three email accounts. None of them have any identity
other than the default. I have filters that filter messages off to my Local
Folders like DLUG Messages. That is what I am replying to now.
I always have to click on the v arrow in outgoing emails to set it to the
desired account. (Hotmail).
The other two accounts are seldom used now except for places where I have set
them up as the security email or similar. I'm tempted to delete the Yahoo
account, but then Murphy will probably send an email to it.
I have just unset this on the hotmail account: Reply from this identity when
delivery headers match.
Peter
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