221652 - Wish to overtype from address in new message and reply windows.

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 87987

(Thunderbird :: Message Compose Window, enhancement)

Description

[Chris]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.6a) Gecko/20030926 Firebird/0.7+
Build Identifier: Thunderbird daily

Most mailers these days let you overtype the from address, so that domain owners can use traceable addresses.
I wish to enter addresses such as [e-mail] 

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Compose new mail
2. try and edit from address
3. cant

Actual Results:  
cant overtype from address

Expected Results:  
an option to allow users to overtype the from address

eudora can do this (after a tweak) ans so can most webmail.

Comment 1

[NBW]

I vote for this bug as well. I actually spent $40 on the Mulberry email client which has the notion of 
'Profiles' which let you set up the From, Reply-To, Sender headers and other such customizations 
without associating things like SMTP servers, IMAP servers and such. It is smart enough to allow 
you to assign these profiles as default headers on a per IMAP mailbox basis. 

I use this feature in conjunction with qmail's easy to set up alias structure to give out custom 
addresses when I post or give out my email address, I then have my qmail alias route mail 
addressed to an alias to a particular IMAP mailbox. When I read/reply to one of these 
messages, Mulberry presets my headers. A great way to whack spam and manage mail. 

Unfortunately the mulberry UI is IMOP terrible when compared with Thunderbird. I would gladly 
have paid $40 for Thunderbird if I had to to get this feature. 

As a quick fix, just being able to edit the From/Reply-To header manually would be good. 

Currently the only work around with Thunderbird is to create seperate dummy accounts but that is 
too cumbersome to work with.

Thnx.

Comment 2

[bugzilla.mozilla.org]

I use site-specific customized email addresses with every single online account
I have and being forced to create an account profile for each From: address is a
an unsatisfactory workaround. I can think of no other RFE I'd prefer to see
integrated more than this.

Comment 3

[Stephen Gevers]

Although this bug is specifically targeted to Thunderbird, there is a  2 1/2
year old bug for Mozilla Mail/News (bug #87987) which has over 50 votes.  I
hacked a solution to Thunderbird recently and posted it to that bug, but it was
definitately a hack and not a real solution.  I had hoped that the hack would
have at least sparked some discussion about creating a real solution, but the
bug owner was excluded from the list of email addresses that received the
distribution of email generated from bug activity.

The problem, as I see it, is that you don't want to create a completely new
identity, but override 1-3 fields of an existing identity (from name, from
email, organization).  

Comment 4

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

I also want this really badly, but admittedly this is an edge case.  This would
be something that would be a really good candidate for an extension if it's
something that's possible to tweak that way...

I'm also in the process of trying to migrate from Eudora, and that's something I
ran into in the process (as mentioned, Eudora lets you do that ;)

Comment 5

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

Setting a dependency on bug 87987, since I'm assuming if it's fixed in MailNews
that Thunderbird would automatically inherit it, right?  If I'm wrong, someone
fix it. :)  Not marking it as a duplicate so people can still find it when
searching in the Thunderbird product.

Comment 6

[Ben Bucksch (:BenB)]

I don't know about the policy, but this looks like a clear dup and IMHO should
me marked so, to avoid to duplicate all bugs for TB.

Comment 7

[Scott MacGregor]

we don't maintain thunderbird dupes of mozilla mailnews bugs

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

Comment 8

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

in that case, breaking the dependency, since it no longer makes sense :)