[SBE] Email issue

[Dan Rapak]

Darn. Looks like the screen grabs didn't make it through. If anyone 
would like to see them, email me at drapak at sbe.org and I'll send them to 
you directly.

Thanks,
Dan


On 6/14/2021 11:11 AM, Dan Rapak via SBE wrote:
> 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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