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[Josiah-l <357864@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

(In reply to neil@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx from comment #127)
> (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.

After seeing what the editable dropdown *should* do, I agree.

> 
> > - 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.

Indeed, but I still worry that people will try using this for "quickly
adding accounts", which of course won't work.

> 
> > 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.)

Hmm, guess I'll have to see the proper interaction then. Right now I'm
still not convinced.

> 
> > *customize please. :)
> ;-)
> 
> > All of this is unnecessary now because of your backend changes landing.
> Well you didn't have review authority over it anyway.

Err, I wasn't suggesting I did (I didn't give it any review flag), I'm
simply pointing out things you will want to fix before your next
version. The backend changes in this patch causes it to not apply,
that's all I was noting. :)

> 
> 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.

Yes, that works fine, so I wonder what's going on in Compose. The
dropdown in the compose window is styled pretty heavily after my compose
changes in bug 867166 and children. Perhaps that's related? What
platform have you tested this on? I'm surprised this issue wouldn't
appear on all platforms, since the styling is fairly consistent.

(In reply to Magnus Melin from comment #126)
> I don't think we need to worry much about abuse, it's really easy to do
> already if you're inclined to do so.
> I do think servers these days are pickier than they used to so often it's
> not allowed to use an alias, or (e.g. gmail) they "fix" the sender if it's
> not one they accept. It would be good to communicate this somehow.

Yes, I agree we don't need to worry considerably, but it is worth
pointing out. For example, simply having it there may confuse innocent,
but naive, users who think they can use it to obtain whatever email they
want. They may not realize the issues with this, and the problems it
might cause later. I can see the bug already:

"Bug XXXXXX - I sent an email with a custom 'awesomeme@xxxxxx` address,
but when my friends try to email me at the address, it doesn't show up
in my Gmail account"

And that's when we're all whacking our heads on our desks. :)

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/357864

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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