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[Ben-bucksch <357864@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Given the questioning about the nature of this, why is this being promoted as a
> core feature instead of as an addon? It seems to me this is exactly why we have addons.

Please. You have to stop questioning features *after* they are
implemented. This bug is almost 14 years (!) old, and Mozilla always had
addons, that's plenty of time to raise objections like that, not when
there's a patch ready to land.

I an using the "Virtual Identity" addon since many years, but that very
fact that I need certain addons (I can't use Thunderbird without them),
and that they are not always up-to-date, prevents me from using
Thunderbird trunk. I'd like to use a stock Thunderbird trunk build, at
least for my most important needs, without depending on addons for
everyday work. I currently have to use an age-old Thunderbird (which is
insecure), because of the addons. Addons are good for integration with
your telephony provider, but not for basic emailing needs.

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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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