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[Bug 357864]

 

(In reply to Ben Bucksch (:BenB) from comment #147)
> When I select an identity, click "Customize From Address", and edit it, I
> then can still select other identities, and they will apply. That's good.
> But when I select the same identity that I originally selected, I do not
> return to the original From address, but my edited one stays. That's odd.
> I'd argue that all dropdown entries should behave the same and reset the
> edit field's value. However, that's a minor thing and also debatable. I
> wouldn't hold the commit for that.

Not being able to reset an edited sender to its original state does not look like a minor issue to me.
How does this affect recycled compose windows?

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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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