245262 - RFE: Can't sufficiently alter "From:" address when composing mail

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 44863

(Thunderbird :: Message Compose Window, defect)

Description

[Chris P. Ross]

When sending email, I want to be able to set my "From:" address appropriate to
the list to which I'm sending email.
To accomplish this, I'd need either:
a) An editable text window that I can type into, or
b) A way to have a secondary list of "permissible From addresses" that are not
their own account.  ie, won't need a server to connect to.

  I know there's some risk here of forging addresses, but even if you held it
all to be "@foo.bar" for an account [e-mail], then it's less of an issue. 
(Perhaps each account could contain a list of other LHS's that should be allowed?)

  In my case, I'm content with just letting me select a "+foo" tag for the LHS
of my address.  That's all I'm using.  But that's not a sufficiently interesting
feature to spend the energy implementing, IMHO.

Comment 1

[OstGote!]

IMO a dupe of Bug 87987.

Comment 2

[Chris P. Ross]

Actually, looking around a bit more from that starting point, I think my real
desire for this bug is a dup of bug #44863, which is marked as RESOLVED.

Perhaps we should change this bug to track the inclusion of that fix into
Thunderbird?  Otherwise, I guess you can just mark it as a dup of bug 44863.

Thanks.

Comment 3

[Scott MacGregor]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 44863 ***