thunderbird-addon-subaddress-reply does not work

[JAtC-nl]

I have my own e-mail domain (say @surname.org) and have configured the catch all feature. My standard address is ab@surname.org. So if some one sends a mail to ab@surname.org it is delivered in my thunderbird inbox, also are mails to ab.xy@surname.org delivered to my inbox.
Without your add-on, a reply to a mail in my inbox which is addressed to ab.xy@surname.org is send from the address ab@surname.org. Installing your add-on does not change this behavior.
I installed the add-on because I would like to see ab.xy@surname.org in stead of ab@surname.org as sender in the above example.
Kind regards Jan Arnoud ten Cate

[JAtC-nl]

Ah, I see, it works as advertised with ab+xy@surname.org but not with ab.xy@surname.org. Could you make the add-on work with every *@surname.org?

[CrysK]

I can only agree with that.
An extension to @.surname.org would also be important for me resp. *@ab.surname.org.

Anyway, I do not understand the restriction. It has no use at all.

[Johann-Tree]

To be able to use a . in addition to - and + sign before the @ you can change the line 44 in background.js to the following:
const subaddressRegex = new RegExp(identityMailUser + "[\-+\.].+@" + identityMailDomain, "i");

I tried it out and it works!

[Arcitec]

@JAtC-nl @CrysK @Johann-Tree If you need catch-all support, there's an addon that was made especially for that (it supports plus-/sub-addressing too, though):

https://addons.thunderbird.net/en-us/thunderbird/addon/replyasoriginalrecipientup/

You can read more about the differences here:

#6

It's easier than manually modifying the code of an addon. 🤷‍♂️

[Johann-Tree]

@Arcitec Thanks for this wonderful tip!

[DirkHaar]

ReplyAsOriginalRecipient also does not do the job.

The FROM field is correctly filled with the former TO address, but the new TO address has the same entry.

[Arcitec]

ReplyAsOriginalRecipient also does not do the job.

The FROM field is correctly filled with the former TO address, but the new TO address has the same entry.

@DirkHaar It sounds like you have fundamentally misunderstood what these extensions are for.

They are for automatically setting the new email's FROM address to the address that received the email that you're replying to. In other words: "Reply as original recipient". So that you can automatically keep using your alias/sub-address identity when talking to other people.

They have NOTHING to do with the new email's "TO address". They don't have any code for that at all. And I don't know what you'd even want them to do about that? Obviously "TO address" should be set to the person you are REPLYING TO. Which the email client already handles automatically when you click "Reply" on someone's email (TO = the person you are replying to).

Hope this helps.

[DirkHaar]

Replying to the sender doesn't work currently for me from all accounts. Sometimes my address is in the from and to fields...

[mintmideal]

Replying to the sender doesn't work currently for me from all accounts. Sometimes my address is in the from and to fields...

Mmh, today everything's fine again regarding to that.

Nevertheless, the addons did not fill the "TO" field correctly, which should be the previous sender when I click on REPLY.
If I need to fill that on a reply, I don't need an addon, than I would better be forced type in my appropriate from-address which I type without errors more likely.

[Johann-Tree]

Replying to the sender doesn't work currently for me from all accounts. Sometimes my address is in the from and to fields...

Try if using Reply instead of Reply All solves this.

[mintmideal]

Did not use reply all. I'm not that dumb ;-)