qiqitori/reply_as_original_recipient

This Thunderbird extension automatically changes the "From" field in replies to whatever the original sender's email had in "To" or "CC", but only if exactly one email address from all "To" and "CC" headers matches a configurable pattern.

Reply As Original Recipient

This Thunderbird extension automatically changes the "From" field in replies to whatever the original sender's email had in "To" or "CC", but only if exactly one email address from all "To" and "CC" headers matches a configurable pattern.

To pack these files into an extension ready to use in Thunderbird, zip everything up (you don't need the README.md or the LICENSE though) and change the .zip extension to .xpi. Example:

git clone https://github.com/qiqitori/reply_as_original_recipient.git
cd reply_as_original_recipient
zip -r ../reply_as_original_recipient.xpi *

To change the pattern for "To"/"CC" matching, go to Thunderbird's "about:config" dialog and edit the property extensions.replyasoriginalrecipient.patterns. Example patterns:

• name+*@gmail.com
• *@example.org
• *+* (the default: email addresses containing a + are matched)
• * (any email address is matched)
• *@example.org,*+* (multiple patterns are separated by comma)

The patterns are matched case insensitive against the full recipient e.g. My Name [email protected] as well as the email (the part between < and >). Only * and , have special meaning in the patterns option. Blanks at the beginning and the end are ignored.

For more information, see https://blog.qiqitori.com/?p=194

reply_as_original_recipient's Issues

Thunderbird default 'Reply from this identity' function

There is now a buildin function in thunderbird for this:
right click on mailbox, settings, at "Reply from this identity when delivery headers match" insert for example *@domain.com

Maybe it would be nice to mention in the README and archive this repository. As I also was looking for a working version of this plugin which is I found out is a default option in thunderbird these days.

Not supported by the current release.

Can you please update this add-on to be compatible with the current release. tyvm. (82.0b1)

"Full, unrestricted access to thunder and your computer"

I was about to install from the latest git version and Thunderbird warned me about this security issue.
Would it be possible to restrain this access to something less invasive?

Update for Thunderbird 68

It would be great if you could update your plugin to work with Thunderbird 68.

should change account

In TB you can configure several accounts, that have email-addresses associated with each of them. The add-on reply_as_original_recipient does change the sender address correctly, but disregards the account to which a sender address belongs. This may lead to the situation that a mail get sent from the wrong SMTP server and fails SPF checks in succession.

The add-on should set the correct sending environment for a message by looking up the address that it sets as the sender address. It seems TB is not doing this on its own.

Add option to copy to Reply-To address instead of From

Would be awesome if you could add an option to have this extension copy the To address into the Reply-To address field upon clicking reply.