I'm using the upstream Daily version of Thunderbird, which I have always
used, even as far back as when I was sharing my local copy mail
environment between Windows and Fedora, and I don't remember Thunderbird
ever not quoting the details of who the reply to was at the top of the
email.
From what I can see there is no configuration options in Thunderbird to
toggle this functionality.
And yet that didn't appear this time (perhaps you deleted those lines),
and nevertheless it's still clear who is being replied to.
Yes, I did delete those lines in my reply as I have done in this one.
Yes, for your emails it is obvious who is being replied to, but for a
lot of emails it's not when they don't have a signature.
As you have said with your emails it is obvious who is being replied to,
as I see your name in the from data displayed in the inbox and you have
your initials in the signature.
The issue I have with a lot of the emails in the list is the from data
shows as "Community support for Fedora Users" (as my mails do when I see
them, which seems to have surfaced since moving to Gmail as my mail
system) and there is no signature shown, so the only way to know who is
actually being responded to is the info at the top which I tend to
leave, but if it is annoying to people then I can remove it.
Are you sure? What I see is a From: line showing the poster's name, and
a To: line with the list address ("Community support" etc.)
Yes. If I look at the first mail in this thread from Michael, the "From"
and To in the mail headers as shown by Thunderbird at the top of the
preview window I use both show as "Community Support", which marries up
with the Correspondents column in my inbox which indicates the mail came
from "Community Support", but with your email that I'm replying to, the
"From" header identifies you and the To is "Community Support". I've
also noticed that with mails I send both the "From" and the To show as
"Community Support", which seems to have only happened since moving from
the email address supplied to me by my ISP to using a Gmail address.
The signature is put there by the user (in some cases because they've
configured their MUA to do it for them).
This bit I understood, but the issue I have is that for a lot of the
emails I look a signature is not being presented, so when the "From" and
To are both "Community Support" I have no idea who the mail is from
until I do a reply.
So clearly TBird knows who you're replying to, but isn't showing you
that by default in the headers. I've no idea why that is. Perhaps some
TBird user could jump in here, because it's clearly not normal.
Just for comparison, this is what my mailer shows me for your message
(the one I'm replying to now):
From: Stephen Morris<[email protected]>
Reply-To: Community support for Fedora
users<[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Subject: RE: After recent upgrade of firefox find it has as many as 50
lines with ps -ef | grep firefox??
Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2025 08:07:49 +1100 (09/10/25 22:07:49)
Mailer: Thunderbird Daily
List-Archive:
<https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/>
There is something weird going on with the version of Thunderbird.
Looking at the history of my replies in this thread they are all showing
the from as my email address whereas before I created the Vcard for my
signature and configured Thunderbird to add it automatically I am sure
the from displayed as "community support". But what is even more wierd
is by default in the inbox display Thunderbird shows "Subject",
"Correspondents" (which I believed to be the From) and "Date" and, for
your emails, the "Correspondents" column is showing you but for my
replies even though the From identifies me as you have shown the
"Correspondents" column shows "Community support for Fedora".
Also just for reference below is what I get for your emails (removing
all the info that is not relevent):
Message-ID:<[email protected]>
Subject: Re: After recent upgrade of firefox find it has as many as 50 lines
with ps -ef | grep firefox??
From: Patrick O'Callaghan<[email protected]>
To:[email protected]
Date: Thu, 09 Oct 2025 22:37:06 +0100
In-Reply-To:<[email protected]>
References:<[email protected]>
<[email protected]>
<[email protected]>
<[email protected]>
<[email protected]>
<[email protected]>
<[email protected]>
<[email protected]>
<[email protected]>
<[email protected]>
User-Agent: Evolution 3.56.2 (3.56.2-2.fc42)
MIME-Version: 1.0
Reply-To: Community support for Fedora users<[email protected]>
List-Id: Community support for Fedora users <users.lists.fedoraproject.org>
Archived-At:
<https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/XL2V2AIYORWQIAIBLER76B5ZO5OFEOGJ/>
List-Archive:
<https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/>
List-Help:<mailto:[email protected]?subject=help>
List-Owner:<mailto:[email protected]>
List-Post:<mailto:[email protected]>
List-Subscribe:<mailto:[email protected]>
List-Unsubscribe:<mailto:[email protected]>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
Whereas for Michael's email which was the first one in this thread I see
the following (this now tells me I'm going to have to raise an issue
with Thunderbird as in the mail preview window what I thought was the
From data is showing "Community support" even though the From Header is
showing Michael):
To:[email protected]
Date: Sat, 27 Sep 2025 12:06:37 +1000
MIME-Version: 1.0
Subject: After recent upgrade of firefox find it has as many as 50 lines with
ps -ef | grep firefox??
Message-ID:<[email protected]>
Priority: normal
X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (v4.91.1746)
Reply-To:[email protected],
Community support for Fedora users<[email protected]>
List-Id: Community support for Fedora users <users.lists.fedoraproject.org>
Archived-At:
<https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/ELBZU5ZED56BKFP57DFYNY4BLFXUXCQT/>
List-Archive:
<https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/>
List-Help:<mailto:[email protected]?subject=help>
List-Owner:<mailto:[email protected]>
List-Post:<mailto:[email protected]>
List-Subscribe:<mailto:[email protected]>
List-Unsubscribe:<mailto:[email protected]>
From: "Michael D. Setzer II via users"<[email protected]>
Cc: "Michael D. Setzer II"<[email protected]>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
regards,
BEGIN:VCARD
VERSION:4.0
N:Morris;Stephen;;;
FN:Steve
NICKNAME:Steve
EMAIL;PREF=1;TYPE=home:[email protected]
TZ:Australia/Melbourne
END:VCARD
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