Do the same as in Kmail, please. I moved form Thunderbird to Kmail/1 in 2008 because Kmail/1 IMAP performance was magnitudes faster. I reconsidered and moved back to Thunderbird a few months ago because Kmail/1 has been replaced by Kmail/2 with degraded (understatment [1]) IMAP performance and plenty of other issues. I found Thunderbird has leapt forward (kudos!); I could add to it almost all the features I got used to in Kmail with add-ons, except the lack of ability to edit the >From field for the current email only. There was an add-on [2], but unfortunately it is discontinued [3]. If somebody with the necessary skill/knowledge could update that add-on, the feature would be available to whoever needs it, although the implementation in Kmail/1 is actually a very elegant one, with the feature "hidden" and available by simply clicking into the field.
[1] <https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=291006> [2] <https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/tb-change-from-and-fcc-on-comp/> [3] <http://www.supportware.net/mozilla/> ** Bug watch added: KDE Bug Tracking System #291006 https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=291006 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to thunderbird in Ubuntu. 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 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/thunderbird/+bug/357864/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
