create alias address in thunderbird

[Roger Fink]

Is it possible to create an email address alias in Thunderbird so that I
can reply to the contact address of my website using that contract
address, rather than the Gmail address I use from the desktop? (incoming
website mail is forwarded to the Gmail account on Tb).

[Wilf]

You can set up extra identities associated with the email account in
Thunderbird.

Tools
Account Settings
click on the account name in the left hand pane
Manage Identities in the right hand pane
Set up as many identities as you need

Wilf

[Grant Taylor]

On 03/04/2018 12:14 PM, Wilf wrote:
> You can set up extra identities associated with the email account in
> Thunderbird.

Check out the "Correct Identity" add-on, it will make using the correct
identity less annoying and more automated.



--
Grant. . . .
unix || die

[Ed Mullen]

On 3/4/2018 at 1:25 PM, Roger Fink created this epitome of digital genius:

Can you give a link to the site? It would help for us to see the actual
address you're talking about.

--
Ed Mullen
http://edmullen.net/
He who runs behind truck is exhausted, he who runs in front of truck is
tired.

[Roger Fink]

Thanks for the replies. This is new territory for me and I'm going keep
at it a little longer before meaningfully posting back. Replies from
the website created on the desktop go out with the website email address
(as they should), but because Gmail is the conduit for replies between
email client and website, replies from a would-be correspondent show the
gmail account address in the address header (in other words the true
email address). I would like to be able to have an exchange of multiple
emails where the alias was used automatically in all places where the
website address is called for but I'm beginning to think that maybe
that's not possible.

Ed, as a result of my fiddling around with the email settings, the
website entry page is out of kilter, and I'd prefer to wait until it's
fixed before I link to it here. The contact email link on the site,
which appears twice, is fine. You might be interested to know that the
site is about an undiscovered painting genius whose career lasted four
years. She was found dead at age 66 in her apartment on Township Line
Road in Elkins Park.

[Roger Fink]

On 3/5/2018 12:07 AM, Roger Fink wrote:
> On 3/4/2018 1:25 PM, Roger Fink wrote:
>> Is it possible to create an email address alias in Thunderbird so that I
>> can reply to the contact address of my website using that contract
>> address, rather than the Gmail address I use from the desktop? (incoming
>> website mail is forwarded to the Gmail account on Tb).
>>
> Thanks for the replies. This is new territory for me and I'm going keep
> at it a little longer before meaningfully posting back. Replies from
> the website created on the desktop go out with the website email address
> (as they should), but because Gmail is the conduit for replies between
> email client and website, replies from a would-be correspondent show the
> gmail account address in the address header (in other words the true
> email address). I would like to be able to have an exchange of multiple
> emails where the alias was used automatically in all places where the
> website address is called for but I'm beginning to think that maybe
> that's not possible.
>

Yes it is possible. Only took a day and a half, YMMV.

If you can identify the website email server and outgoing port, you can
set-up Gmail so that the website email address is the default entry for
email sent and received by Thunderbird. In Tb I had to list the actual
web address as a separate identity in the Gmail count, neither address
has an entry filled in for Reply-to-Address.

In case anyone is interested, the Gmail work is in Settings/Accounts and
Import/Send mail as:/Add an email address [make it the default]. Also,
tick "Reply from the same address the message was sent to."

website is harrietyoung.com, reload entry page if it appears degraded
before clicking in.

[J. P. Gilliver (John)]

In message
<mailman.750.1520289583....@lists.mozilla.org>,
Roger Fink <fi...@manana.org> writes:
[]

>Also, tick "Reply from the same address the message was sent to."

[]
I thought I'd read in another newsgroup that that facility required an
add-on. Are you saying it's included in the basic Thunderbird?
--
J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/<1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf

"I am entitled to my own opinion."
"Yes, but it's your constant assumption that everyone else is also that's so
annoying." - Vila & Avon

[Chris Ilias]

On 2018-03-06 9:56 AM, J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:
> In message
> <mailman.750.1520289583....@lists.mozilla.org>,
> Roger Fink <fi...@manana.org> writes:
> []
>> Also, tick "Reply from the same address the message was sent to."
> []
> I thought I'd read in another newsgroup that that facility required an
> add-on. Are you saying it's included in the basic Thunderbird?

It's part of Thunderbird, but that checkbox he is referring to is in
Gmail. His full sentence is:
"n case anyone is interested, *the Gmail work is* in Settings/Accounts

and Import/Send mail as:/Add an email address [make it the default].

Also, tick "Reply from the same address the message was sent to." "

In Thunderbird, you need to have a separate identity set up. Let's say
you have two identities:
fo...@255soft.uk
fo...@255soft.uk

If you get a message sent to fo...@255soft.uk, and click on the Reply
button, the fo...@255soft.uk identity will be used.

--
Chris Ilias <http://ilias.ca>
Mailing list/Newsgroup moderator

[J. P. Gilliver (John)]

In message
<mailman.769.1520360847....@lists.mozilla.org>,

Ah, thanks. The addon I read about elsewhere would allow a reply to be
sent from whatever the email to which it is a reply was sent to,
_without_ having to set up a specific identity. (Some of us - probably
most who own a domain, but some others too - can have infinite numbers
of emails that will still reach us, usually by varying the part before
the @; we often use that for correspondence, thus knowing where any leak
leaked from, among many other reasons.) I forget the name of the addon,
though I do have a note of it somewhere.

--
J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/<1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf

Where [other presenters] tackle the world with a box of watercolours, he
takes a spanner. - David Butcher (on Guy Martin), RT 2015/1/31-2/6

[Roger Fink]

On 3/5/2018 12:07 AM, Roger Fink wrote:

> On 3/4/2018 1:25 PM, Roger Fink wrote:
>> Is it possible to create an email address alias in Thunderbird so that I
>> can reply to the contact address of my website using that contract
>> address, rather than the Gmail address I use from the desktop? (incoming
>> website mail is forwarded to the Gmail account on Tb).
>>

Regarding mail forwarded from a website to the website owner, this is
definitely OT but IMO needs to be posted. The reason I signed up for
Gmail after dropping it for seven years was not to achieve the
particular configuration I described, but rather to receive ANY website
mail at all. As explained to me by the web designer, the problem is that
my ISP Comcast's spam filters are so aggressive that webhosters were
forwarding legitimate email that couldn't get past Comcast's filters and
were being blamed for it. To protect themselves, some webhosting
companies refused to forward through Comcast. Bluehost stopped
forwarding mail to me and never told me about it - probably a violation
of ToS. When the web designer tried to set my email up with the new
webhoster, Dreamhost it rejected it. (btw, email was not the reason we
moved)

My website partner, who also gets his internet through Comcast, has used
Yahoo mail from the beginning and has never had a problem.