Well, I THOUGHT my Global Inbox Unify task had gone smoothly today.
In short, in Server Settings in the left-hand pane I had a pop.earthlink.net account, pop.earthlink.ne… (читать ещё)
Well, I THOUGHT my Global Inbox Unify task had gone smoothly today.
In short, in Server Settings in the left-hand pane I had a pop.earthlink.net account, pop.earthlink.net(1) account (beats me why) and my new NON-earthlink (yes, still pop) email account. I will be cancelling earthlink any minute now, so maybe all this will be solved by that event, but I'm still concerned.
I did the Global Unify instructions from Mozilla Support. The result was a thing of beauty... a single Inbox, Sent "special folders" I think they're called, all under "Local Folders" ... no longer the two separate Inboxes and such.
BUT... right after doing the Global Inbox task, I ran a test, sending a single test email inside Thunderbird from my earthlink email address, with "TO" being my non-earthlink email address, and a CC to my earthlink email address.
This is hard to describe without telling/showing what my email addresses are!
The result in that inside-TBird test is that I receive both copies of that single email... yay ... BUT the "Recipient" column in TBird shows my Non-earthlink email address for BOTH emails. I expected to see the Recipient column say my Non-earthlink email address for one copy and my earthlink email address for the other. This shouldn't be this way, right? I tend to notice problems when they're not problems, so hopefully this is one of those cases?
In ANOTHER test, I emailed from out on the web...on icloud.com. In that test, I sent a single test email from my icloud email address, with "TO" being my Non-earthlink email address, and a CC to my earthlink email address.
THAT result was slightly different in look: I received two emails...yay ... BUT both those emails show the Non-earthlink email address *twice* in the Recipient column in TBird, separated by a comma.
Should I be worried? I will be stopping my earthlink email service, but I'm concerned that this is a sign of trouble to come even once I cancel earthlink. Maybe at some point I can delete my pop.earthlink.net accounts listed in that left hand pane in TBird, or maybe could have already. I'm always afraid to delete things!
One bit of good news, perhaps: When I do a test to just *one* of my two email addresses -- either my earthlink email address or my Non-earthlink one, the resulting Recipient display in the TBird's Recipient column seems to always be fine...always the right recipient email address. In other words, the problem behavior seems to only be when I do a test to *both email addresses in a single email*, with a "TO" and a "CC."
Is there a different simple test with simple results I should be doing to test if I've got a Global Inbox Unify side effect problem? I suppose in real life no one would ever be sending to both my earthlink and non-earthlink email addresses simultaneously, but I'm still concerned by what I'm seeing.
Thanks for any insights.