How to Make an Account the Default for Sending Mail?
In the latest update I'm no longer able to keep one of my email accounts as default for sending mail. Whenever I click on a different mail account, that account becomes "default" email for sending email. How can I make an account the permanent default email account for sending out mail?
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Click tools>accountsettings - highlight the desired account in left sidebar - scroll down slightly to 'Account Actions. - click the drop-down menu and select 'Set Default'
david said
Click tools>accountsettings - highlight the desired account in left sidebar - scroll down slightly to 'Account Actions. - click the drop-down menu and select 'Set Default'
This did NOT solve the issue. RE-READ MY POST AGAIN. Doing what you suggested DOES NOT solve the issue.
Getting angry with me does not solve your issue either. I recall a person having what may have been the same problem last month; his issue was solved by carefully reviewing his account setup, which had several errors. Good luck in that.
david said
Getting angry with me does not solve your issue either. I recall a person having what may have been the same problem last month; his issue was solved by carefully reviewing his account setup, which had several errors. Good luck in that.
Unable to read a post correctly is only going to stress you. Btw I was the person who posted that a while back when I was overseas. I believe you replied with the same advice. Again, the advice didnt solve it and still doesnt. Wish you the best in your advice
Modified by koolx
I don't know what you mean by 'latest' update: I don't have your computer and can't check the version you have. I have 102.2 from Ubuntu 22.04 and the way it works is that when I start Thunderbird, the default account is used when I create a new mail because no account is selected. However if I select explicitly an account in the left pane, if I create a new mail this account is selected as the origin. I have never even noticed that there is a default account, but I am sure that as far back as I remember (maybe version 40 ? it's so far that I don't know for sure), Thunderbird has always worked like that, that is, selecting an account leads to use it when creating a new mail. And to be honest, the way it is working seems far more useful than forcing the default account to be used all the time.
gp said
I don't know what you mean by 'latest' update: I don't have your computer and can't check the version you have. I have 102.2 from Ubuntu 22.04 and the way it works is that when I start Thunderbird, the default account is used when I create a new mail because no account is selected. However if I select explicitly an account in the left pane, if I create a new mail this account is selected as the origin. I have never even noticed that there is a default account, but I am sure that as far back as I remember (maybe version 40 ? it's so far that I don't know for sure), Thunderbird has always worked like that, that is, selecting an account leads to use it when creating a new mail. And to be honest, the way it is working seems far more useful than forcing the default account to be used all the time.
So I have version 102.4.1 on win 10. Before, I chose a default email that sent out emails regardless of what email account was clicked on the left pane.
If your comment is about accepting the current utility of the feature, which is what I assume strongly, you havent solved my problem and I'm back to square 1. No offense but I dont know the point to your comment.
The point is that you are assuming (asserting) that this is a regression. This is not a regression, Thunderbird has always worked like that. I can even go further, the code indicates that this is the intended behaviour:
hg annotate -d mailnews/compose/src/nsMsgComposeService.cpp
Fri May 10 00:07:32 2019 +0200: // Use default identity if no identity has been specified
So that's the developer choice. You are free to fork the code and compile your own version, it's open source.
gp said
The point is that you are assuming (asserting) that this is a regression. This is not a regression, Thunderbird has always worked like that. I can even go further, the code indicates that this is the intended behaviour:
Again, not true. Before recent TB updates I was able to choose an email account to be used as default outgoing mail regardless of other accounts that happened to be highlighted in the left pane.
And no, youre wrong again in implying that the point to my comment was about the TB version being a regression. My comment doesnt warrant that as discussion, only a problem that needs to be solved. But since you've pointed that out, it is indeed a step back.