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Account woes after removing Virtual Identity.

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I never could get Virtual Identity or Correct Identity to consistently work predictably, so after many months twiddling them, I removed them. Then I needed to test what I had to do to live without them. There's a problem.

(The email addresses and accounts are fakes, but you'll get the idea.)

When I send this message to myself at a different account:

To: to@gmail.com
Reply-To: replyto@gmail.com

me.to gets the message fine. When I compose a reply, I expect this:

To: replyto@gmail.com
Reply-To: to@gmail.com

But I get this:

To: replyto@gmail.com
Reply-To: to+arf@gmail.com

to+arf@gmail.com was a virtual identity. So it appears that something is screwed. But what is screwed and how would I fix it?

Grateful for any ideas, Mark.

I never could get Virtual Identity or Correct Identity to consistently work predictably, so after many months twiddling them, I removed them. Then I needed to test what I had to do to live without them. There's a problem. (The email addresses and accounts are fakes, but you'll get the idea.) When I send this message to myself at a different account: To: to@gmail.com Reply-To: replyto@gmail.com me.to gets the message fine. When I compose a reply, I expect this: To: replyto@gmail.com Reply-To: to@gmail.com But I get this: To: replyto@gmail.com Reply-To: to+arf@gmail.com to+arf@gmail.com was a virtual identity. So it appears that something is screwed. But what is screwed and how would I fix it? Grateful for any ideas, Mark.

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I'm posting this again because this editor goofed and there's no way to edit a post.

I never could get Virtual Identity or Correct Identity to consistently work predictably, so after many months twiddling them, I removed them. Then I needed to test what I had to do to live without them. There's a problem.

(The email addresses and accounts are fakes, but you'll get the idea.)

When I send this message to myself at a different account:

To: to@gmail.com
Reply-To: replyto@gmail.com


to@gmail.com gets the message fine. When I compose a reply, I expect this:

To: replyto@gmail.com
Reply-To: to@gmail.com


But I get this:

To: replyto@gmail.com
Reply-To: to+arf@gmail.com


to+arf@gmail.com was a virtual identity. So it appears that something is screwed. But what is screwed and how would I fix it?

Grateful for any ideas, Mark.

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Never mind. I didn't realize that TBird also has identies.

Currently, identities are tied to account whereas I need a separate identity for each recipient. I'll work on this further and post anew if I can't find a solution.

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Check your outgoing server (SMTP) entries in account settings. I guess you have one there with the wrong user name.