trouble using GMail address "tricks" in Thunderbird
I posted this to the Linux Mint forum as I use that distro and they rely on Thunderbird as the email client. corresponding Linux Mint forum article
My workstation is a Thinkpad X220tablet Convertible running Linux Mint 19.3. All Mint distro provided (19 Oct 2020) updates are applied. I have several email accounts at various servers active in my T'bird application. All accounts are accessed with IMAP.
The text from my forum posting follows below.
Thanks in advance, ~~~ 0;-Dan Covington, LA
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I'm playing with [u]Google™ email address tricks/u and think that I found a [b]bug/b with Thunderbird™. I cannot discover how to post it to a T'bird or Mozilla® page so I'm posting the details here. see [url="https://smallbusiness.chron.com/gmail-email-address-tricks-41619.html#:~:text=Although%20Gmail%20allows%20users%20to,recognize%20and%20deliver%20your%20email"]Google Tricks/url.
Using T'bird v68.10.0 (64-bit), I select Kirk's account and send a message to Scotty. Both are Gmail addresses. [code]
FROM: Kirk <kirk@gmail.com>
TO: "scotty+stuff@gmail.com"
...
/code I used the T'bird GUI but my example reads like a terminal session. I needed to quotation marks in the TO address so that T'bird would ignore the plus sign.
After a brief delay, I'm told that there is a new message for Scotty. I open that message and see: [code]
FROM: kirk@gmail.com
TO: scotty+stuff@gmail.com
...
/code This is exactly what I expected. I also look at Kirk's SentMail folder and see the same FROM and TO information.
On detailed inspection, Scotty's inbox shows the new message as: [code]
Correspondent: scotty+stuff@gmail.com
/code Huh? What?
Since Kirk sent the message, shouldn't his email or address book entry show as the Correspondent?
Looking at Kirk's other SentMessage data [list] [*] none are empty(blank) [*] all contain the TO email address or address book Contact Name /list
As a further test, I send a message using not-tricky email addressing: [code]
FROM: kirk@gmail.com
TO: scotty@gmail.com
...
/code Kirks SentMail folder shows a blank(empty) Correspondent field. Scotty Inbox also shows a blank(empty) Correspondent field. REPLY etc all direct messages correctly. Huh? What?
[b]DISCUSSION/b [i]What is going on with the Correspondent field contents. Is it something to do with the fact that both Kirk@gmail.com and Scotty@gmail.com are configured as accounts in the same T'bird session? Is something else going on?
Does the email trick "scotty+stuff@gmail.com" cause the message to be stored so that any REPLY comes back to Scotty -- because of the embedded plus-sign?
Clearly, the email trick is causing something to go haywire. Sadly, the what is going on is not clear beyond "it's not working" beyond message delivery.
Krejt Përgjigjet (1)
how about you display the from and to addresses and then determine if your issue is with the implementation of the correspondent column, which is purely a Thunderbird construct. There is no correspondent header in an email.