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 [email protected] 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. -- 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 : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
