373165 - Enable using a "from" e-mail adress that is not defined in accounts

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 257713

(Thunderbird :: Account Manager, enhancement)

Description

[Bruno Abele]

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Build Identifier: Feature Request

With a catch-all mailbox on the server a user receives email for all possible adresses in his domain. Thunderbird will show the To: header for the mails, but it is not possible to create a reply using the email adress the incoming mail was sent to. 

Workaround: Change account information and indentity each time to match the required adress.

Solution:
Add a dropdown entry (like for CC email adress) in the mail compose window where the user can add an individual "from" adress that is used instead of the selected account/identity adress.

I do not know if this is a very common case which would need a more complex solution. But the small solution would already help.

Reproducible: Always

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Comment 3

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

OK!  :)