[SBE] Email issue

[Dan Rapak]

Hi Guys,

This list has been a bit quiet of late so I thought I'd dust off some of 
the cobwebs. I'm looking for help concerning Mozilla's Thunderbird email 
program.

I'm doing a project for our local SBE Chapter 41 and have acquired an 
"sbe.org" email forwarding address from Chriss at SBE National. For 
those not familiar, this is simply a forwarding service available to any 
SBE member, where messages addressed to "yourname at sbe.org" are simply 
forwarded to your personal email. My question for the group revolves 
around outbound email messages.

I would like outbound messages to appear as though they originated from 
"sbe.org" as well (as opposed to originating from my personal email.) 
Thunderbird offers the ability to set up "identities" which will 
theoretically do what I need, but I'm having difficulty getting it work. 
When I set up the SBE identity, Thunderbird tells me the mailbox address 
is invalid.

Similarly, if I forget about identities all together and simply poke the 
sbe.org address in the "Reply to:" field, Thunderbird also tells me the 
mailbox address is invalid. Bottom line: no matter what I do, I can't 
structure a message such that the recipient will see and automatically 
reply to the sbe.org address.

I'll add a couple of screen grabs to this post. Hopefully they'll make 
it through the list-server.

Thunderbird screen for creating a new identity.:


I've tried this both with and without the "Reply to" field filled in. 
Same result either way. In both cases, this is the error message I get 
when I try to send a message using this identity or using sbe.org in the 
Reply to:




I've checked the Mozilla Thunderbird help pages and even looked at the 
requisite YouTube videos on the subject. As near as I can tell, I'm 
doing everything correctly. Have any of you done this with Thunderbird 
and if so, can you offer any advice?

Thanks in advance,
Dan Rapak

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