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I have an e-mail address from a provider which does not provide me with an inbox, only redirection. In other words, all messages sent to that address will simply be redirected to an address I choose. Nor can I send mail from that address.
This is my primary address. It's easy to remember, easy to spell. I want to use it for incoming and outgoing mail.
Previously, I had this set up with Gmail. Mail sent to the address would be redirected to my Gmail address. And, in Gmail, if I replied to that mail, or if I wrote a new message, the From
address would be faked to that address. (Gmail would also add a Sender
address of my actual Gmail address, so that the messages would not get caught by spam filters.)
I now have moved away from Gmail. I am redirecting my e-mail to a different address: contact@example.net (my own domain).
This is what I want:
- When I reply to a message in Thunderbird, the
From
address is set to be the same as theTo
address, even if that address is a different domain. - The
Sender
address is always set to contact@example.net, to avoid spam filters. - No matter what the
From
address is, the mail is always actually sent from themail.example.net
server, using the login details for the contact@example.net account. - To cope with the weirdness of Microsoft Outlook, and the strange ways it behaves when it gets mail with
From
andSender
addresses, theReply-To
address is always set to be the same as theFrom
address. - When I write a new message, not a reply, I should get a choice of
From
addresses. Ideally, the default would be my non-mailbox address.
This question is closely related to Set Thunderbird "from" address by incoming "to" address, but there are a couple of differences:
- I have two different domains, and one does not provide mail services, so I need to fake the
From
address and use aSender
address. - I want my default
From
address to be faked.
This is an IMAP account. Thunderbird is running on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS.
1Given that you want to control most of the setup, how about running your own mail server. Then you can control every aspect of the setup of the email headers. On the client side, you can use the Virtual Identity add-on to automate the email address selection if you have many, but Thunderbird will automatically choose the right one if it has a match in its identities (this is independent of outgoing server). – Paul – 2014-06-15T13:44:31.127
Just change your email address in your account setup. – Majenko – 2014-06-15T15:44:22.980