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UX-error-prevention / Pref

1) General interest and usefulness of this feature seem to have
declinied: Last duplicate of this bug filed 2006, 8 years ago. Only 4
supportive comments since 2005. As we speak, many common email-providers
do no longer allow defining random "From" values, to prevent spam/spoof.

2) Otoh, adding this feature by default has a big error potential, as
editing sender can prevent users from successfully sending their message
(which they will only notice after sending). Which makes this a case of
UX-error-prevention.

3) I conclude from 1) and 2) that this feature should be preffed-off by
default, and I suspect hidden pref might suffice for the type of
advanced users who have their own domain to tweak senders at random.

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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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