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Odd behavior WRT "reply" ... sends to the "to address" , from the "from address" (ie does not swap)

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My name is graeme , my wife Olivia.

I have many many messages from various people; if I reply to a a mail from "fred", Thunderbird creates a mail:

to: fred@xxxx from: graeme@xxxx

I have several messages from my wife , that behave in this same fashion (ie , as you would expect) but ONE message, when I reply the message displayed in Thunderbird (ie NOT YET SENT, so no SMTP etc yet involved) says:

(it does NOT have a REPLY-TO header BTW)

to: graeme@... from olivia@.....

...I've search back though my mailbox and all the mails from my wife work as you would expect, bar this one ...AND ONE OTHER that I found:

This says:

from olivia@.xxxx to: company@xxxx, olivia@xxxx. graeme@xxxxx

When I hit reply , it generates a message:

from olivia@xxxx to: company@xxxx, olivia@xxxx. graeme@xxxxx

So the from and to in the reply are exactly the same as the from/to in the initial message (they are not swapped)


So, to be clear 99% of messages are fine, it's just one or two cases where I get this odd behavior.

My name is '''graeme''' , my wife '''Olivia'''. I have many many messages from various people; if I reply to a a mail from "'''fred'''", Thunderbird creates a mail: to: '''fred'''@xxxx from: '''graeme'''@xxxx I have several messages from my wife , that behave in this same fashion (ie , as you would expect) but ONE message, when I reply the message displayed in Thunderbird (ie NOT YET SENT, so no SMTP etc yet involved) says: (it does NOT have a REPLY-TO header BTW) to: graeme@... from olivia@..... ...I've search back though my mailbox and all the mails from my wife work as you would expect, bar this one ...AND ONE OTHER that I found: This says: from '''olivia'''@.xxxx to: '''company'''@xxxx, olivia@xxxx. graeme@xxxxx When I hit reply , it generates a message: from '''olivia'''@xxxx to: '''company'''@xxxx, olivia@xxxx. graeme@xxxxx So the '''from''' and '''to''' in the reply are exactly the same as the from/to in the initial message (they are not swapped) So, to be clear 99% of messages are fine, it's just one or two cases where I get this odd behavior.

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Graeme V
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BTW, another useful bit of info. When I quit this reply msg (without making any changes ) Thunderbird says "This message has been modified , discard, save, cancel) ... if I reply to a normal message and quit in the same fashion, it says nothing and just exits.

Uliza swali

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