Filter to Inbox and answer an e-mail

In Thunderbird I use more email addresses and there are filters to place all coming in email to one specific Inbox. But when I do an answer of one of the emails Thunderbird gives it always the send email address of this specific Inbox instead of my email address from the email. Can I change this?

There are add-ons that aim to select an appropriate identity to use as the "From:" address when replying. Thunderbird tends to prefer the primary identity associated with the account currently open, and add-ons can modify this behaviour by seeking an identity within the selected message and then using the appropriate identity when composing a reply. If you were moving messages to Local Folders, which I think is preferable to moving them into a real email account's Inbox, then it would offer the default identity. I think there are also bugs in Thunderbird which make automatic reply address selection erratic; Reply All in particular seems to make a total mess of choosing a relevant From: address.
e.g. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/correct-identity/?src=api
However, your problem illustrates a major disadvantage in the business of moving messages into a communal Inbox; messages' provenance tends to be lost, and if this is important to you, then it may be better to leave messages in their original Inbox and use some other way to manage them. I use Saved Searches to collate newly-arrived or unread or project-specific messages, so their actual location become less significant. A common reason for doing as you have done is a fear that new messages will be missed, or are hard to find, being scattered over multiple accounts.
A built-in feature intended to address this is the '''View|Folders→Unified''' option, which collates common folders into virtual folders. I don't use it myself, and can't recommend it, as it has, in my opinion, several bugs, including inaccurate message counts, which make it unreliable.
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/using-saved-searches

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Hi,
I've been using thunderbird for my gmail, recently i noticed that some incoming mail skipped my inbox folder while never appearing in it and turned out in an all mail folder instead.
I didn't put any kind off filters on so i wonder why this keeps happening and i would like to know how to be sure all of my incoming mail gets shown in the inbox folder ?
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Ernie

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What is unread except for what is in your Inbox mailbox?
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You’re welcome.
The reason I post your entire quote is so that you have
complete info again
I see the entire thread every time I read any of the posts, so the only thing quoting everything accomplishes is actually reducing the amount of relevant information I can see on the screen.
Did you get a chance to read all of my replies?
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I don't feel that you understood that I have done the easy import
as per your email several times which did not resolve my problem.
The only place where you mentioned having already tried importing anything is your first post, and the first thing I said in my reply to that post is precisely that I didn’t understand what you said there. So yes, you’re right that I didn’t understand it. Moreover, I still don’t understand it...
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And I’m trying to help you recover them, but I cannot do so if you don’t explain what’s the problem exactly.
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