249547 - Allow changing FROM address to anything when composing

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 87987

(MailNews Core :: Composition, enhancement)

Description

[R. Landfill]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040616
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040616

When composing an e-mail, there is a pulldown that allows one to choose among
all the addresses associated with the accounts that have been set up. However,
why cannot one simply type in an arbitrary e-mail address that will appear as
the From: address? 

Why would I want to do this? Not to hide my identity while spamming, but rather,
I use quite a few different e-mail addresses for different purposes. For
example, I use a different e-mail at every commerce site and for every list
serve. If I need to post a message to a list serve or remove myself from it is
often very difficult because they reject my emails since they have the wrong
"From" field. 

I realize that an upcoming version of Mozilla will have the capacity to
associate multiple identities to a single account. This is a (small) step in the
right direction, but it would be much simpler to just let me type in the From
address.

 

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
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Comment 1

[Jo Hermans]

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

Comment 2

[Stephen Donner [:stephend] Not actively reading bugmail]

verified dup