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The EditSender extension lets you change both the name and email address of the sender to whatever you want (on the fly) when composing a message.The Identity Select extension lets you select your identity from the Write button.

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Another solution would be to use the BorderColors extension to color code the compose message window based on the current identity.

The Identity Reminder extension might be useful if you're worried that you will accidentally reply using the wrong email address.

It also uses colors to help you chose the right email address.

The Identity Chooser add-on forces you to choose the From: address first, before composing a message.

The Folder Account extension lets you associate user accounts and identities with specific folders.

The Flexible Identity extension checks the list of recipients before sending a message and displays a warning if the outbound email address or domain does not match your needs.

The Correct identity extension may make it easier to choose an identity.

The old way to add multiple identities by editing prefs.js.

If you use a separate folder for mail sent to each mailing list one workaround would be to use the Folder Account extension to specify what identity to use when a specific folder is selected. If that happens you need to manually select the appropriate identity from the list box.

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In that case, Thunderbird doesn't know how to match the address the message was originally sent to and will typically select the default identity. It might be buried in one of the Received: headers, or in mailing list specific headers such Delivered-To: or Envelope-To: that Thunderbird has no knowledge of. Messages sent using mailing lists frequently don't specify what address the message was sent to in the To: or Cc: headers. However, in most versions that identity is not actually used unless its either the current accounts identity, a multiple identity defined for the current account or you set mailnews.reply_to_self_check_all_ident to true. Thunderbird will let you select any accounts From: address in the From: drop down list.

using the Edit button in the Manage Identities window. That identity (except for the From: address) defaults to the accounts settings but it can be modified to use different settings such as a different signature, draft folder, "sent" folder, SMTP server etc. You can select any multiple identity when replying, forwarding or composing a new message by selecting it in the From drop down list box. Set mailnews.reply_to_self_check_all_ident to true using the Config editor if you want it to check the identities for all accounts when replying. When you reply to a message, Thunderbird uses the identity that matches the address the message was originally sent to, if it can find a match in the account you are working in. When you write a new message, Thunderbird uses the default identity for the account you are working in.

Repeat as necessary for additional identities.

Click the "Add." button and then add the necessary information for the additional identity for the account.

Click the "Manage Identities." button (on the lower right).

Choose the account to which you wish to add additional identities.

You are merely enhancing an existing account. This doesn't require you to add another account or use a different SMTP server.

Want to create a set of customized settings in order to switch which SMTP server you use, whether the message is encrypted, what reply-to address to use etc.

Want to hide the fact that you're using something like Gmail's Mail Fetcher to centralize messages from multiple accounts.

Have multiple accounts and don't want to have to worry about what folder is currently selected in the folder pane.

Forward messages from another e-mail address (either an account or a forwarding service such as Bigfoot).

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Use plus addressing to create disposable email addresses to help deal with spam.Have mail sent to multiple email addresses in your inbox.This lets you select the desired From: address from a drop down list when composing a message, have the From: address default to whatever email address a message was sent to when replying, or use a different set of customized settings when sending a message. You can tell Thunderbird to use more than one identity (personality) per mail account. (Redirected from Mozilla Suite : FAQs : Mail Aliases) This article was written for Thunderbird but also generally applies to current versions of SeaMonkey.