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When I click "Reply all" on an email, Thunderbird includes my own email address in the CC list.

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When I click "Reply all" on an email, Thunderbird includes my own email address in the CC list. So when I send the email a copy arrives back in my Inbox. How do I change this so that "all" means all the other recipients, not including me ? (That is how it works in most or all other email systems I've used in the past 30+ years). I've checked in Tools > Account Settings > Copies and Folders , and also in Composition and Addressing - there is nothing helpful there. Richard

When I click "Reply all" on an email, Thunderbird includes my own email address in the CC list. So when I send the email a copy arrives back in my Inbox. How do I change this so that "all" means all the other recipients, not including me ? (That is how it works in most or all other email systems I've used in the past 30+ years). I've checked in Tools > Account Settings > Copies and Folders , and also in Composition and Addressing - there is nothing helpful there. Richard

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I agree with what you're saying, but TB doesn't act as Google and Android do. To my knowledge, this behaviour is also present in Outlook. When you next receive a message to a group and you reply, I believe you will be okay if address entries match. But 'reply all' is still a possibility.

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I believe you need to have the explicit id as shown in the TO list also defined in your addressbook. There is also a config editor entry, mailnews.reply_to_self_check_all_ident , but I'm not sure if it accomplishes your goal. As it stands, 'reply all' is doing as it states.

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Thanks David, that has helped me to work out what is happening. The email address I use is a @gmail address, but when I started using it 7 or 8 years ago it was a @googlemail address. As far as Google is concerned they are the same. It seems that the @googlemail version is still in some peoples' address books. When somebody emails me using the @googlemail address, the emails end up in the same inbox in Thunderbird. When I "reply all" the "from" defaults to my @gmail address, but it seems Thunderbird treats the @googlemail address as a different address, and includes it in the recipients. If I "reply all" to an email that was addressed to my @gmail address, it doesn't send me in the recipients. I've added the @googlemail address to the address book entry for my @gmail address, but that doesn't seem to have fixed the problem. If I go to Google to do my mail, or do it on my Android phone, a "reply all" doesn't include my address in the CC list, presumably because Google recognises that @gmail and @googlemail are effectively the same address.

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I agree with what you're saying, but TB doesn't act as Google and Android do. To my knowledge, this behaviour is also present in Outlook. When you next receive a message to a group and you reply, I believe you will be okay if address entries match. But 'reply all' is still a possibility.