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Summary
Emails sent from a Thunderbird identity I retain the 'from' address of the original gmail account.
Explanation
I'm using Thunderbird 14 on a portable installation with Google as provider, Lightning and Mail Merge. I have set up a Thunderbird account with different identities. I have another account (communty@gi--etc.com) which forwards to my Gmail account (gjlewis37@gmail.com). I have set up an identity on my Thunderbird account which has the email and reply to account set to community@gi--etc.com.
So I select community@gi--etc.com in the 'from field' when sending emails. However, any emails I send like this from community@gi--etc.com appear to recipients as sent from gjlewis37@gmail.com, although it keeps the identity specific signature but not the 'sent from' field.
The precise set up for my Gmail alias community@gietc.
The problem remains the same if I leave the reply-to field blank:
Yet when I send emails like this, although the signature remains, the email is sent 'from' my Gmail, and not the identity:
Gregory Lewis
Posted 2012-07-20T15:51:01.377
Reputation: 71
I am a bit confused by the number of email addresses that do not match between your question and your screenshots. Please clarify your question. For now I recommend to try to save a draft of a mail you compose with your problem identity and see if the address is already wrong before sending. – Gurken Papst – 2012-07-20T16:53:37.093
@Gurken. Thanks for your tip on looking at drafts and sent mail. I have manged to solve this problem myself.
SOLUTION: Gmail will not send from other email addresses until an alias is set up in gmail, regardless of identities set up in thunderbird: it will channel all outgoing traffic through the original gmail address. Setting up the email address I wanted to be sending from as an alias in gmail solved the problem. – Gregory Lewis – 2012-07-20T22:34:15.333
If you can answer your own question please write the solution as an answer and accept it (might take a few hours until you are allowed to accept). You should check the FAQ, too. – Baarn – 2012-07-20T23:11:42.433
Ok, now I understand what you were doing. Is there a special reason to send these mails through Gmail? If not, you also could just set up another SMTP account in Thunderbird for your community address with the correct SMTP server and select that in the identity configuration dialog. Remember that Google will add a Sender field in your mails revealing your Gmail address. Submitting mail through foreign servers can cause false positives in spam detection, e.g. when the domain has a strict SPF record. – Gurken Papst – 2012-07-21T11:28:02.227