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On 07/08/14 19:06, Julian Hall wrote: > On 07/08/14 16:12, Brad Rogers wrote: >> On Thu, 07 Aug 2014 15:05:44 +0100 >> Tom <madtom1999@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> Hello Tom, >> >>> T'bird allows filtering on a whole lot of methods - just about >>> everything you could think of in terms of headers and content. >> It's not really the filtering that's at issue here but 'folder >> properties', as Claws Mails names them. It's those that allow me to >> force a certain email address for a particular folder, instead of the >> currently selected one. After sending my post, it occurred to me that >> Julian may already be doing that (or something similar), but T'bird has >> taken it upon itself to not follow those instructions. >> >> In any case, it's handy to know (for somebody that's never used it) >> T'bird can filter multiple ways. So thanks for the info. >> > T'bird folder properties are basic and don't allow that kind of set-up, > however the problem is simply that if I reply to an email I expect the > mail to be sent from the same account it came in on, but T'bird seems to > randomly change it and it didn't used to so something seems to have been > broken by an update. > > This reply now I had to change to send from my Linux email account and > it's beginning to be a pain. Not sure what's going on here: I use Thunderbird exclusively as my MUA on Windows, Linux and Mac OSX and have done for many years. Typically any individual instance will have from 3 to 25 of my mail accounts configured for it (I have a lot of mail, albeit a lot of it automated reports from servers, etc, which goes to dedicated accounts). I have a LOT of filters that automatically sort and move it all around for me and regularly field emails all day every day from 2 or 3 personal accounts and a couple of work accounts. I have never seen this behaviour. Whichever email account I happen to be reading an email in is the one that the sent from field is correctly populated with when I hit reply or compose. I'm not sure how you are all triggering this obviously unwanted behaviour - I'm certainly not doing anything special and at the rate I get mail, I'm pretty sure I would have hit it repeatedly by now if it wasn't perhaps an issue you've created yourselves? The only thing that springs to mind is I don't use local folders for anything (why would you?). Everything stays on the relevant IMAP servers and I backup mail automatically and religiously, so have no need for local folders. The relevant info: ghost@failbot:~$ apt-cache policy thunderbird | head -n 3 thunderbird: Installed: 1:31.0+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.1 Candidate: 1:31.0+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.1 Regards -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq