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[Neil-httl <357864@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

(In reply to Josiah Bruner from comment #125)
> - "Customize From Address" is confusing. “Enter a custom address” perhaps?
OK (but see below)

> - If you choose a custom address (which focuses the field), and then you
> deselect the field, and click it again, we should show the drop down (don't
> keep it editable).
You and your drop down again. What's going wrong on your system that you can't use an editable drop down? Making the field uneditable would unedit the custom address, so that's pointless.

> - What if users try to use it as a separate address and they don’t actually have the account added to TB. Any replies to it will never show up.
This is already possible via the multiple identity support.

> I like the drop down UI though, just needs an option to pick the server.
It uses the server of the address that you customised. (But then again you would know that if your editable drop down was working.)

> *customize please. :)
;-)

> All of this is unnecessary now because of your backend changes landing.
Well you didn't have review authority over it anyway.

Just to check your editable drop down, please can you try the following steps:
* Open an HTML Compose window
* Click in the message body area
* Format - Page Colours and Background
* Advanced Edit...
Under Attribute there should be a dropdown that gives you the options of background, bgcolor, text, link, vlink, alink, id, class, title, lang and dir but is also editable.

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Title:
  Editing the "From" field for the current email only (as text, not
  dropdown)

Status in Mozilla Thunderbird Mail and News:
  Confirmed
Status in thunderbird package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: thunderbird

  I want to quite often use a particular email address (e.g. for writing
  to a mailing list), where I do not have added the email address to the
  account settings yet.

  However, Thunderbird does not allow to edit the From field, but only
  provides the configured email addresses in a dropdown.

  It would be nice, if you could also edit the From field in a text
  input.

  KMail provides this, for example, and there appear to be some
  extensions for it, but I'd like to avoid using an addon for this, but
  rather think it's a nice feature to have by default.

  I could imagine, that the last entry in the dropdown would say
  "Edit..." or "Custom..." and change the dropdown into a text field.

  ProblemType: Bug
  Architecture: i386
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
  NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
  Package: mozilla-thunderbird 2.0.0.21+nobinonly-0ubuntu1
  PackageArchitecture: all
  ProcEnviron:
   PATH=(custom, user)
   LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: thunderbird
  Uname: Linux 2.6.28-11-generic i686

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