Comments on: Thunderbird's Most Underrated Feature: Identities

By: asif

asif — Thu, 06 Jan 2011 22:53:13 +0000

Hi, do you know how to set Thunderbird’s multiple identities so that it does not only link the outgoing action based on a matching email address in a received message’s “To:” field, but also the “From” field?

Thx

By: asif

asif — Thu, 06 Jan 2011 22:22:12 +0000

I have been wanting this for ages and wished Thunderbird would eventually implement it..little did i know it had this all along, right from version 0.5…Thank you thank you thank you for writing this article to share with the world :)

By: Richard C Haven

Richard C Haven — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 00:00:41 +0000

Yes, I know this thread started a year ago, but Google likes it, so why not me.

Identities are great until you have more than five of them. Thunderbird must improve the UI for managing these things and perhaps sort them alphabetically (by name OR email Reply-To) so I can find which one I want when I am sending mail (replying does nicely default to using the original To: address).

Who is the best person to hear my plea ?

By: Zach

Zach — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 19:29:30 +0000

Thanks for the idea, I’d never even thought about it before. I use a Gmail account for my main one though, and even though I set up the Identity properly (I think!) when I send test emails out to my other accounts, it still shows up as being from my gmail account instead of from my dummy address that i put in. I know that something must be working though, because the dummy name I used as the “FROM” in the identity did show up…just not my dummy email address!

Any ideas? Did I do something wrong? I also have an AIM account I could use the SMTP server for, but I tested it identically and it didn’t work…

By: Alex

Alex — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 08:10:03 +0000

Thanks for the tip – exactly what I’ve been looking for.

By: Suz

Suz — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 10:22:16 +0000

Norman, do you know if you can create a dedicated shortcut in Mac OS X.5?
thanks

By: Norman

Norman — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 22:15:00 +0000

I’ve found the answer! PROFILES is the keyword for what I wanted and a simple duplicated shortcut to Thnderbird after creating a profile was all that was required!

See http://www.mozilla.org/support/thunderbird/profile

By: Norman

Norman — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 16:42:37 +0000

Can anyone tell me about different email folders/addresses/preferences? My wife has one email address; I have another. I have Thunderbird installed once on the PC. What’s the best way of keeping the two instances of our emails separate without installing Thunderbird twice, so to speak? In Eudora, it allowed me to point to the one exe file with her settings (and thus her emails and prefs) and one for mine
Thanks

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GMail From The Desktop at The 4-Hour Workweek Journal — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 17:35:33 +0000

[...] you will need to add these other email addresses to your Gmail account in Thunderbird by using the Manage Identities feature. When composing an email, you can then select from which address the message will be sent [...]

By: MikeWanner.com · E-mail Applications That Deserve Notice…

MikeWanner.com · E-mail Applications That Deserve Notice… — Sun, 14 Oct 2007 01:57:15 +0000

[...] Here?s where things get interesting with Thunderbird: You can create an account for the main email, then add a bunch of Identities to that account. What happens then is that you can create emails or respond with the ?email alias? you are working with instead of your main email account showing up in the headers as ?to? and ?from?. I won?t get into the details of how to do that, it?s laid out very well here: Web Worker DailyThunderbird?s Most Underrated Feature: Identities [...]

By: Rob

Rob — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 00:44:34 +0000

I may be too dumb to be here in the first place, but hopefully I’m just a computer and e-mail novice. But I’m confused…

…I have an email account with AOL, free, left over after I dropped AOL as my ISP. I have 5 different AOL screenames (multiple identies?) As I see it, I think that I therefore have only one AOL email “account”, but with 5 identities/screenames. Is this a situation where Thunderbird’s “Multiple Identities” should work? My tinkering does not seem to get the multiple screenames to work. (I suspect this is not a case of true Multiple Identities in the sense Thunderbird intends, because among other reasons I never have any trouble sending and receiving emails under the separate screen names.

Thanks for your patience. (I supect…duhhh..that this is not even an appropriate place to post a query and expect an answer. I’m learning :\

By: Email Management Tips » SuperAff.com

Email Management Tips » SuperAff.com — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 18:43:02 +0000

[...] Here’s where things get interesting with Thunderbird: You can create an account for the main email, then add a bunch of Identities to that account. What happens then is that you can create emails or respond with the “email alias” you are working with instead of your main email account showing up in the headers as “to” and “from”. I won’t get into the details of how to do that, it’s laid out very well here: Web Worker DailyThunderbird’s Most Underrated Feature: Identities [...]

By: Peter B

Peter B — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 16:07:00 +0000

Multiple identities are great!

(And of course they’ve been present since the beginning of time, even in the good old console pine)

But Thunderbird 2.0 screwed them up a bit, at least for those, who used it before. (tb 1.5). In 1.5 you could only set the name and address of the identity, but not outgoing SMTP, sent-mail saving folders, etc. But in 2.0 you can set them (which is good), but not only can set them, but HAVE TO set them. There is no “use default” option. So if you have an account with many identities, and want to change the outgoing SMTP for a specific incoming account, then you have to do that for ALL of the identities, which is insane, imho. Hope, they’ll fix it for next release :)

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Thu, 26 Jul 2007 21:01:24 +0000

[...] quick on its feet, it’s customizable, it’s cross-platform, and it handles IMAP email and identities better than most of its competition in the desktop email client space. Despite Thunderbird’s [...]

By: Wez Furlong

Wez Furlong — Sun, 13 May 2007 23:58:56 +0000

Mail.app does indeed have multiple identities, albeit, hidden.
You simply enter your email addresses separated by commas; this page has more details:

http://jonathan.tron.name/articles/2006/11/05/multiple-identities-in-one-account-with-apple-mail-app

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