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When i reply to email, can have "from" address to be whatever is in "to" address on original email

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Mario123 replied
Mario123
Mario123

Hi,

I have a domain with catch all address. 

I have default send from address as john@mydomain.com. When i press new message or hit reply , from is john@mydomain.

With catch all setup, some email would be addressed email1@mydomain.com, email2@mydomain etc...

Is it possible than when i hit reply button on email, the from address would be set to "to" address of email i'm replying to ( for example email1@mydomain.com), instead of sender defined in account settings?

Thanks, Mario

Hi, I have a domain with catch all address. I have default send from address as john@mydomain.com. When i press new message or hit reply , from is john@mydomain. With catch all setup, some email would be addressed email1@mydomain.com, email2@mydomain etc... Is it possible than when i hit reply button on email, the from address would be set to "to" address of email i'm replying to ( for example email1@mydomain.com), instead of sender defined in account settings? Thanks, Mario

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david
david
  • Top 10 Contributor

Thunderbird 'sees' your message as coming from the 'real' email address. As such, that is the default response. You still can, when responding, use the drop-down menu on FROM to select the desired alias. If there is an addon for this, I am not aware of it.

Mario123
Mario123 Question owner

Thanks David, Addon was amazing suggestion, couldn’t find one so I quickly put together something that does what i need.

david
david
  • Top 10 Contributor

OK, I am impressed. I've never seen such creativity on an issue. Congratulations for your innovation. Is this something that can be shared? Interesting. :)

Mario123
Mario123 Question owner

https://github.com/MarioZG/thunderbird-sendfrom/releases

Not public addon yet, as i need to test a bit, and catch all edge cases. And add option to enable only for specific accounts....

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