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How to reply from original recipient when message was server-forwarded?

NaturalBornCamper
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On my web hosting, I have forwarders so that:

[email protected] -> forwards to -> [email protected] [email protected] -> forwards to -> [email protected] [email protected] -> forwards to -> [email protected] ...

But when I click "reply", if always replies from [email protected], which I don't want. I would like to keep the original recipient email.

In the message headers, everything seems to be ok: To = [email protected] Delived-To = [email protected]

I tried the "Reply as original recipient" Addon but it only works on specific cases that I don't really understand, like if there's a "+" symbol in the address: https://addons.thunderbird.net/en-US/thunderbird/addon/reply-as-original-recipient/?src=userprofile

I searched Google, but I cannot find the exact solution.

On my web hosting, I have forwarders so that: [email protected] -> forwards to -> [email protected] [email protected] -> forwards to -> [email protected] [email protected] -> forwards to -> [email protected] ... But when I click "reply", if always replies from [email protected], which I don't want. I would like to keep the original recipient email. In the message headers, everything seems to be ok: To = [email protected] Delived-To = [email protected] I tried the "Reply as original recipient" Addon but it only works on specific cases that I don't really understand, like if there's a "+" symbol in the address: https://addons.thunderbird.net/en-US/thunderbird/addon/reply-as-original-recipient/?src=userprofile I searched Google, but I cannot find the exact solution.

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Matt
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The issue is does the forwarder leave the original email address in the To: or does it actually change that to the address you are actually receiving it at.

NaturalBornCamper
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Thanks for the answer friend!

I'm not sure how to verify what you just said..

The forward is made on the server directly, not my email client.

And all I see is in the headers, the "To" is the original email destination and the "Delivered-To" is where the server redirected to.

Toad-Hall
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Confirm: In Thunderbird you only have your [email protected] as a mail account. For that same mail account, the Outgoing Server smtp is only using that same [email protected] as username.

Have you created any additional identities for that mail account? You can then add additional outgoing servers and assign the correct one to each identity. Info on Identities https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/using-identities

NaturalBornCamper
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Oh I see! Thanks for this, I didn't know identities served that purpose. And it's great because I tested and it automatically selects the correct identity when hitting the "reply" button, that's great :)

Is this the only way of doing this, however? I have 74+ different forwarded email addresses to isolate potential spammers. For example [email protected] this way if instagram gets hacked I can just disable that address.

This means that creating 74 identities, which will take a while ;)