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21 Jul 2017, 10:37 AM | #16 |
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Because of uncertainties raised in this thread about the account level, I just tried sending six test messages with the From address set to "Kilroy <snape@hogwarts.sch.uk>", and the To was set to a Gmail account and my personal domain account hosted at Fastmail. The messages were sent from:
You can change the From address when sending a message from the Fastmail web interface as I described before.
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21 Jul 2017, 11:15 AM | #17 |
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[quote=n5bb;603235][*]Messages sent from Thunderbird in that way do have your Fastmail account name in the headers. I think this is required by the SMTP standards and allows the recipient and Fastmail to track where the message came from for security purposes.
I only use POP as I like to leave my mail on the fastmail server so that wont help the situation either. |
21 Jul 2017, 12:01 PM | #18 |
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Actually, that makes no difference... POP and IMAP are protocols used to download messages from your mailbox; regardless of which one you're using, the same protocol —*SMTP — is still used to send messages.
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21 Jul 2017, 12:09 PM | #19 | |
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The only information contained in SMTP-submitted e-mail messages was the IP address of the computer from which I sent the message, which definitely is of course a normal part of the SMTP header. |
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21 Jul 2017, 12:13 PM | #20 |
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I had trouble with IMAP and folders when I looked at something and then delete I use to lose the message of the Fastmail server, so I went to POP.
Sadly I'm not that computer literate so some things are hit and miss, but I still manage to get most of my mail... |
21 Jul 2017, 12:29 PM | #21 | |
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The issue is that when you change your FROM address "on-the-fly" using the method Bill describes, Thunderbird still submits the message with whatever the main address in your account settings is as the envelope address. Obviously in most cases this is your "real" FastMail address, so that's what gets used. In other words, your FastMail address only appears in the sent message because that's what you have configured as your main address in Thunderbird. If you change the FROM address in your Thunderbird account settings, that's the address that will be used for the envelope address. In fact you could use one bogus address in the main account settings (a@b.com), and then a second bogus address (c@d.org) as your "on-the-fly" address when sending a message, and those are the two addresses that would appear in the headers — c@d.org as the normal from, and a@b.com as the envelope address in the headers (and the "on behalf of" address in clients like Microsoft Outlook). |
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21 Jul 2017, 12:39 PM | #22 |
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I stand corrected -- I was composing my reply along the same lines as your latest post when yours arrived. I discovered that Thunderbird reacts differently when you use those two different way to change From. In the case of changing the From at the top of the Write screen, the envelope From is not changed, only the From header. My iOS devices have one sending identity choice, and similarly to the Thunderbird identity settings it changes both the From header and the envelope From.
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21 Jul 2017, 12:47 PM | #23 | |
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When you delete a message in Thunderbird, it will be moved to the Trash folder and show up in the Trash folder on the Fastmail IMAP server. Bill |
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21 Jul 2017, 02:25 PM | #24 |
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Thank you Bill
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31 Jul 2017, 08:24 AM | #25 | |
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