Using may16 commercial trunk build Using the Compose Mail To context item in the mail header envelope opens a message composition window with the correct addressee, but always selects the default account identity in the From field. Since I'm reading a message in another account with different identity, I'd expect it to select that (current) identity. 1. Open to mail window in a profile having multiple accounts, each account having a different identity/name/email. 2. Select/Read a message in an account other than the default identity. In the header envelope for that message click on an email address in the To: Cc: or other address header and select the Compose Mail To item. 3. Mail composition window opens with default account/identity selected as the From identity instead of the identity of the account you're in and composing from.

reassign to varada

taking all of varada's bugs.

Note that the duplicate has had a patch submitted against it, in nightlies since Dec 20. I have checked in the 1.7a-1230/Win2K build and it performs as requested in this bug. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 18906 ***

Reopening; not a dupe.

Sorry about the bugspam. I retested this under Moz 1.5 -- which does not contain the patch from that alleged dupe -- and that version also behaves as desired for mail addresses in the 'envelope' header. Therefore, not a dupe; so reopening and resetting to WorksForMe. mailto: links within the message body still use the default identity; this is bug 194809.

xref bug 59548 comment 39 where Esther describes this bug's desired behavior (which is the current behavior) as a "regression" in build 20030331.