130371 - Should be able to type in From: when composing news/mail

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 87987

(MailNews Core :: Composition, enhancement)

Description

[mozbug1]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.9) Gecko/20020310
BuildID:    2002031008

I used to be able to type in a From: when I composed a news message, but now
(with 0.9.9) I can only select from a list.  When composing news I like to type
in an address with nospam in it.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Compose a news message
2.
3.

Comment 1

[Jean-Francois Ducarroz]

-->varada

Comment 2

[[e-mail] (gone - use [e-mail] instead)]

We've never had the ability to specify at compose time any account other than
those which you've previously setup.  Where, exactly, could you type 'from' into?

We have Reply-To and Follow-Up-To, but no From widget.

Comment 3

[mozbug1]

The ability was there.  Maybe it was a bug in the widget that allowed typing
when it wasn't supposed to, but I liked being able to type.  I just deleted some
of the older versions on my hard drive, but I still have 0.9.8 and I'll see if
that one lets me type.

Comment 4

[[e-mail] (gone - use [e-mail] instead)]

This ability is never intended.  The specs:

http://www.mozilla.org/mailnews/specs/accounts/

http://www.mozilla.org/mailnews/specs/compose/

clearly show a widget which allows for drop-down selection of a previously made
account.  You can create a [e-mail] accountname if you wish, and then
select that at compose time.

Comment 5

[mozbug1]

That's an ugly workaround, especially since there may be one-off occaisions for
using it, like unsubscribing from an email list that has you as a different
email address.  I had to do that recently and I used the pine roles feature. 
I'm changing this to enhancement and reopening.

Comment 6

[[e-mail] (gone - use [e-mail] instead)]

rfe it is, then.

Comment 7

[Georg Wild]

*** Bug 132617 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 8

[Jonas Jørgensen]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 87987 ***

Comment 9

[[e-mail] (gone - use [e-mail] instead)]

verified dup.