280986 - Mail compose window From: dropdown items are not color coded

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 355520

(Thunderbird :: Message Compose Window, enhancement)

Description

[steeve knight]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
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Color coding of addresses / aliases in the compose window From: dropdown menu
would greatly improve my chances of composing with the intended address.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. ignore mail account with current focus
2. choose 'write'
3. compose and send with unintended address defaulted into the From: field




Trust me. Everyone would love it.

Comment 1

[Lloyd Churches]

Whereas color coding sounds like a great idea, it may be a little over the top.
I have a simple request:

In the compose mail window's from field there is the name of the Sender and the
account name. It is possible to select different accounts. Usually I have the
same name but use different accounts but I cannot see the account name because
the background color of the field is dark blue and the text of the account name
is black. The senders name is white so it is visible, so why not the account
name too. It is so annoying that I have to squint to read it and to be sure I'm
sending from the right account I usually have to click on the from field so that
it becomes white background temporarily.

Comment 2

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 3

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

This bug has been automatically resolved after a period of inactivity (see above
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