(In reply to Ben Bucksch from comment #129) > > * If you really want to pref this feature away, I think the best way would > > be a checkbox in "Account Settings..." | "Manage Identities...".
> So, the presence of the "customize" option would depend on which identity you had selected? No, I'd make it so that only one identity can have this checkbox checked (in Account Settings), and that one identity would always be used for custom email addresses. That said, I do *not* think that we should pref this away. I think Neil's patch was just fine. But I can see the argument. Personally, I'd just add a one-time message that explains the feature and warns people. "Nnormally, you should add your email addresses in Account Setup. This feature here is for users who want to use a custom author email address depending on their recipient, for example josh+ama...@gmail.com or ama...@josh-family.org. It is only for your own email addresses. Impersonating other people may be subject to punishment by law." -- 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
