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[Josiah-l <357864@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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Ignoring the fact that the patch doesn't function properly for me, I'm
still not convinced this is the right approach.

I like that we're enabling custom editing, and am not against the
purpose of the bug, but I think this idea is putting too much emphasis
on it. Most people will want to choose between the options they added
(the drop down list), and do not want to type things in manually.
However, this patch (I'm guessing, since I don't know what the actual
interaction is) does not make that drop down obvious.

I think what we should do is reverse this, and show the drop down if
they click anywhere other than an edit button. The edit button could go
where the dropdown icon is now for example.

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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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