I don't think we need to worry much about abuse, it's really easy to do already if you're inclined to do so. I do think servers these days are pickier than they used to so often it's not allowed to use an alias, or (e.g. gmail) they "fix" the sender if it's not one they accept. It would be good to communicate this somehow.
-- 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
