[Bug 364842] [NEW] thunderbird sends independently empty answer mail with false sender

[Hirtzi]

Public bug reported:

Binary package hint: thunderbird

ubuntu 8.10 2.6.27-14

I'm using two email addresses, let's call them @A and @B. @A is my official email, @B my alias from the same mail provider. So I can choose,  which sender I want to be when sending or answering emails with thunderbird.
Now I got problems with hotmail, the mail provider of a friend, to get rid of that problem, he got a second email address at yahoo, so that I can send answers to him without problems.
He sends emails from hotmail to me, taking my @B address and I'm answering to his yahoo address.
Getting an email from that friend, that he sent to @B, I select reply, going to the field "to", delete his hotmail address and type in his yahoo address, than I type in my message to him and send the email away.
THAN HE GETS TWO MAILS FROM ME! One with my message and @B as sender (that means the right one), another without any message and my @A as sender. (Sometimes the empty mail comes back to me, caused to the above mentioned problems with hotmail). That means, when I typed in his other email address, thunderbird sent away an empty email independently and with the false senders address.
Now imagine this: I want to keep my first email address secret, when something like that happens it's no fun. It's easy to get rid of an alias email address, but to change the real email address can be very stressful.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Dependencies:
 
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.10
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: mozilla-thunderbird None [modified: /var/lib/dpkg/info/mozilla-thunderbird.list]
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/usernamesr/local/sbin:/usernamesr/local/bin:/usernamesr/sbin:/usernamesr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usernamesr/games
 LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: thunderbird
Uname: Linux 2.6.27-14-generic i686

** Affects: thunderbird (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: apport-bug

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thunderbird sends independently empty answer mail with false sender
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