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Thunderbird currently doens't support this mail setup.

There is a bug report about it on the Mozilla Bugzilla.

The status right now is to wait for comments, and if we don't get any on that we could try to implement the feature and then see if we have more comments once it's done.

• Having FSDG compliant distributions maintain one more patch for that feature would probably not be a good idea. However if we manage to get the patches in many distributions, upstream would probably have some interest in supporting such feature.
• We could also implement relaying the mails to the users existing mail address, hoping that the system cannot be abused to send arbitrary mails to other addresses. GNUtoo never did that so he's not confident in doing that in a production system. Having the system being abused due to lax security is probably not an option as it could result in major inconvenience for both the FSF and the organization(s) kindly giving them the IP addresses and the network.
• We could also change mail server, assuming that someone else than GNUtoo shows up to do the job.
• We could also try to migrate to Trisquel 9 along the way to run a more up to date mail server

I can confirm that David's workaround worked for me successfully. When I logged in I had two emails in my inbox from Denis.