1269461 - edit as new message option keeps email adresss of the sender

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1254666

(Thunderbird :: Message Compose Window, defect)

Description

[Christoph Gruber]

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Steps to reproduce:

In my Inbox i can edit an email as new. When i do that the "from" email adress doesnt change. When i forward the massage the email still doesnt change. The receiver of the massage will receive the email from the original sender. But the sender has nothing to do with it.


Actual results:

I can impersionate myself as for exampe a credit company.
In the example (pictures) enclosed i have sent the email from humblebundle to myself 3 times. The sender of the mail still is humblebundle@.... 


Expected results:

My email adress should show in the field "from".
Sorry for bad english

Comment 1

[Christoph Gruber]

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Comment 2

[Christoph Gruber]

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Comment 3

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

This is due to the fact that we now have editable From. So it's fully possibly it *is* you that sent the mail originally with a custom from, and then you'd of course like to keep that.

I agree the behavior could be improved, but I'm not sure in what way.

Comment 4

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

I've mistakenly sent such message as someone else when of course that was not intended.
Not sure "privacy" is the best moniker for this, but it's the only one I can think of.

Comment 5

[Jorg K (CEST = GMT+2)]

Why are we discussing duplicates?