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UX input: I definitely want this feature pref'ed off. This is very
advanced stuff, and quite hazardous when used wrongly (users might not
notice, or too late, that their important emails haven't been sent by
server because they mis-tweaked their sender address). Just warning once
imo is not enough.

I'm not happy with the warning text in comment 142.
E.g. the danger of failing to deliver is not even mentioned. Warning users against committing crimes is inappropriate for TB imo. It's probably not easy to get the warning right. The warning is less relevant when the feature is pref-ed off, so only people who really want this and know what they are doing will switch it on.

On the plus side, the gmail scenario is quite powerful, being able to
create john+filterword@xxxxxxxxx on the fly might be useful. Otoh, I'm
not sure how many usecases/scenarios there would be where I'd want to
use such an email address only exactly once. For repetitive use (even 2
times), it's probably more useful to set up another identity on an
existing account.

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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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