[Bug 357864]

[Bugzilla2007]

UX-error-prevention / Pref

1) General interest and usefulness of this feature seem to have
declinied: Last duplicate of this bug filed 2006, 8 years ago. Only 4
supportive comments since 2005. As we speak, many common email-providers
do no longer allow defining random "From" values, to prevent spam/spoof.

2) Otoh, adding this feature by default has a big error potential, as
editing sender can prevent users from successfully sending their message
(which they will only notice after sending). Which makes this a case of
UX-error-prevention.

3) I conclude from 1) and 2) that this feature should be preffed-off by
default, and I suspect hidden pref might suffice for the type of
advanced users who have their own domain to tweak senders at random.

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Title:
  Editing the "From" field for the current email only (as text, not
  dropdown)

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