Need different Thunderbird email origin when emailing link from Firefox. TBird picks the top account NOT the SMTP default
When invoking 'email link' from Firefox, I get the top email account (in the Account Settings sidebar list) as origin even though that is NOT the default SMTP server. I either need to 1) rearrange the order of the accounts or 2) somehow otherwise give an account other than the top one priority. I am running TBird 60.9.1, which appears to be the latest level
- 1 manually_sort_folders-2.0.2-tb used to do this, but it's now back-level and wont install
- 2 Maybe Correct Identity or Identity Chooser used to be able to do this, but they are also back-level and won't install
This is a major problem for me. I need to be able to choose what the email origin and SMTP service will be whenever I want to send a link from Firefox. Yes, if I remember, I can manually change the From address using the drop down list, but I should be able to set a default and have it stick
Chosen solution
Sending a link or email from another app will always send from the default account, but that account will send on the default SMTP only if that is what set up for that account. Select the default (top) account in Account Settings, then note Outgoing Server (SMTP) in the lower right pane. The selected smtp should have the same User Name and password as the sending account, otherwise the recipient may see the message as being sent from a different account.
Identity Chooser has versions for TB 60 and 68:
https://addons.thunderbird.net/en-us/thunderbird/addon/identity-chooser/versions/
Same for Manually sort folders:
https://addons.thunderbird.net/en-US/thunderbird/addon/manually-sort-folders/versions/
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The top listed account in Thunderbird is the default account.
That's no help at all, and what I already knew and so stated in my original problem report.
If you've got an answer, post it. This is not an answer.
This is a dysfunctional design. I shouldn't have to delete all the accounts save the newest one to get it to send URL emails that list as being from the email origin that I want. Ideally and sensibly, it would be the email origin that's the SMTP default.
You don't turn a bug into a feature by saying that's the way it is.
Chosen Solution
Sending a link or email from another app will always send from the default account, but that account will send on the default SMTP only if that is what set up for that account. Select the default (top) account in Account Settings, then note Outgoing Server (SMTP) in the lower right pane. The selected smtp should have the same User Name and password as the sending account, otherwise the recipient may see the message as being sent from a different account.
Identity Chooser has versions for TB 60 and 68:
https://addons.thunderbird.net/en-us/thunderbird/addon/identity-chooser/versions/
Same for Manually sort folders:
https://addons.thunderbird.net/en-US/thunderbird/addon/manually-sort-folders/versions/
um...what you're saying is that as things are, the top account is the default account. But as TBird works:
- any subsequent account added is subsidiary AND
- you can't rearrange the sequence to put an account you add later at the top, without an add-on.
This is me is a bug. If I transfer new a new email provider, there is no way to make it primary in vanilla TBird. I have added Manually Sort Folders. and resorted the accounts and am fixed.
THANK YOU!
Sorry to be clueless, but when I check the level in Help>About, it says that I am up to date and running 60.9.1. I had assumed that the latest level of MSF (2.0.2) was the one to get for my uptodate TBird....and it would not install, so I thought the addon was busted.
It isn't immediately and dianetically clear that in development advanced trial version. Now I know.
Thanks for you patience and help.
Just to clarify: the Default account appears at the top of the Folder Pane, and you can set any other account (except Local Folders) as the Default with Account Actions at the bottom left of Tools/Account Settings - no add-on needed. The Manually sort folders add-on allows the reordering of accounts as they appear in FP, and will also set the 'First RSS or Mail account in the list' as Default, after restarting TB.
sfhowes said
"Account Actions" at the bottom left of Tools/Account Settings
the "Account Actions" is tricky to spot.
It is in the pane in the new window, not the All Folders pane in main app.
Just saying for those have had the same difficulty I had.
This Q&A needs to get nearer the top of the pile
[I also think you can use this to sort the accounts by repeatedly setting accounts to be default (bring to top, rinse repeat)]