212236 - enhancement request: ability to type From: address when composing an email message

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 87987

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Message Display, enhancement)

Description

[Adam Mackler]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win 9x 4.90; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win 9x 4.90; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624

This may seem minor but it would improve my life so much and should be possible.
 I have my own domain, and when sending email messages I like to use different
return addresses depending on the recipient.  That way if they give my address
to a spammer not only do I know who did it, but I can block mail to that address
without affecting everyone else who sends me email.  With mutt and other shell
programs I can just type the From: header like I type the To: header, but not so
with Mozilla.  I know it's possible to change the return address in the profile
configuration, but then I have to remember to change it back to the default.  It
would be a lot better if I could just type it in as I'm composing the message.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Start to compose a mail message
2. Place mouse over my (your) name/address in the From: box
3. Click.

Actual Results:  
Unable to change address in From: field.

Expected Results:  
Ideally Mozilla would allow me to type my From: address of choice,
without changing the default that appears the next time I compose a message.

I will be like so excited if you add this feature.
I will stop using mutt.

Comment 1

[Jo Hermans]

Workaround if you have multiple email-addresses : create separate accounts for
each address, but use only 1 of them to download mail. When there are multiple
accounts, the 'From' becones a popup button, and you can select the
email-address that you would like to use. Until bug 87987 is fixed, you can't
edit it though.

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