Following Up Sent Messages on Thunderbird

Question

I use Thunderbird (52.4.0). Occasionally, after sending an email to someone, I want to add more to that email before they reply. To do this, I simply go to my Sent emails, click on appropriate email and click Reply. This always used to automatically put in the To box the address I desire. These days it puts my own email address in there. (On the one hand, this makes sense: I sent the email, so 'reply' shoudl go to the sender.) Let me give an example.

Suppose my email address is [e-mail] I want to email [e-mail]. I've sent John an email, say, at 12pm. At 1pm, before he has replied, I want to add some more information. I go to Sent, and click on the email I sent him. I then click Reply. In the To box, it says [e-mail]; in the past, it would've said [e-mail].

As noted above, I'm not saying that this doesn't make sense from a purely abstract point of view. However, it's incredibly unhelpful. I often find myself accidentally emailing myself. (When I had Outlook, it did the same; sometimes I wouldn't even notice that I'd email myself, and the person I wanted to contact never knew anything about it.)

My question is this: how can I (or, is there a way that I can) change it so that it's back to how it used to be?

Answer 1

Try Reply All.

Traditionally, just replying to a message will address the reply to whomever sent the message. If that was you, well it ends up being address to you.

If you Reply All to a message you sent, it will then be addressed to whomever you originally sent the email to.

Note: This answer is based on functionality within Outlook, and as such is an educated guess.

Answer 2

If I do this from my gmail account, then I do not have this issue; I only have the issue from my uni account. There I have multiple accounts, say [e-mail] as well as [e-mail]. On the computer I am using right now, I only had [e-mail] put in on Thunderbird, whereas on my work (office) computer, I had both. If I sent an email from my laptop using [e-mail] and then tried to 'reply', as in the question, it does what I want it to (eg, in the above example, it would send the 'reply' to [e-mail]). However, the emails that I've sent from [e-mail] appear in my Sent folder; when I try to follow-up/'reply' to one of these, it tries to email [e-mail] from the email address [e-mail].

I have no fixed it by adding the second address, [e-mail], to the Thunderbird install on my laptop. When I try any of the emails now, I get the desired result.