Thunderbird 3 "Reply to all", also replies to myself

The Reply to All feature works the way you want only when your e-mail address in the e-mail you are replying to is the same as configured in the account.

In this case, you should add another Identity to your account which uses the other e-mail address.

• Right-click on you account name
• Choose Settings...
• Click on Manage Identities...
• Add an Identity using the e-mail address for which Reply to All did not work correctly.

You might also have to set the config option mailnews.reply_to_self_check_all_ident to true.

Yes! I found finally an answer to this one!

(in windows version)

Go Tools>Options>General tab>Config Editor... button

(in later versions, the Config Editor is on the Advanced tab)

Type in mailnews.reply_to_self_check_all_ident

Double-click it to set it to false

Close about:config window (little x upper right).

Press OK to close the options.

Then try replying to a message you sent.

Should leave you out of the To: and CC: fields. Reply just does the To:'s from the original message. Reply All does the To:'s and the CC's.

Farkin fantashtick!

(Windows Vista, Thunderbird 3.06)

In case none of the above work for you, ensure you don't have a typo in your email address. I managed to do this because our SMTP server enforces a From header anyway, so mail was unhindered and the outside world never saw it. The only hint was that Reply all included me.

The trick about managing identities and adding your alternate email alias is a good one - it does solve the problem, but if you use an irritating email provider like Verizon, it won't actually allow you to send the message. As of a month or so ago, they stopped allowing email aliases such as your own domain name to be used. Very, very annoying! But it would be nice if Thunderbird had a way to let you list your email aliases just for the purpose of removing your own email address from the reply-to list.