michael lefevre wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Steve Smith wrote: > >>Because I'm a control freaq and it just bugs me. No reasonable reason, >>just personal quirks. > > > in which case, i'm afraid the exact answer to your original question is > "no, there isn't a pref for setting a different From: address" >
Actually, there are many reasonable reasons to do this and there are (at least) two bug reports for this: http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=44863 This bug asks for a UI to support multiple identities per account. This feature is already supported in the prefs.js file. If you copy the lines pertaining to a one identity (mail.identity.id1.*) and change the id1 to a unique value (such as id10). Then add the new id to an account by adding its id to the list in the account pref: chage user_pref("mail.account.account1.identities", "id1"); to user_pref("mail.account.account1.identities", "id1,id10"); Make sure that mozilla is not running when you make these changes. The other bug is: http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=87987 Which seeks to make the from address completely editable. I happen to be most interested in this one because the list of identities in the drop down box could get quite large. I maintain my own email domain and create new email addresses each time an online vendor requires one to do e-commerce. If the address starts getting spam I disable it. However, if I receive email on that address, I'd like to reply to it without having to create a new account or identity or edit prefs.js or anything.
