Ok dumb question: I know you can create multiple addresses for receiving coins, but when you send other people coins, what address does Multibit use as the "sending address"?

I just wanted to thanks to the people who have made donations to the multibit.org address in the last month, whoever you are !
:-)

At the moment MultiBit does not support sending to multiple addresses. It is on the list of planned developments.

To update you just install the new version and it picks up your wallets.

hello. I have a problem. I made a transaction with multibit 0.5.11. It has turned out more than 1 kilobyte. Why was it used 7inputs instead of 5 intputs?(5 inputs tx less 1 kb) Whether the added ability in the future to manually select inputs? Does it confirm sometimes? It has not been confirmed within 8 blocks...
https://blockchain.info/en/tx/5ec236b3ca1d123180082a5b9318e0d24271a8dff124c10dae015e1dc5095bed
EDIT: Transaction confirmed. time elapsed 2.5 hours  
ty jim618 for your answer.

For all the group buys that are going on in the Hardware section it would actually be quite useful to control the sender address, as they are also used to prove ownership by signing shipment delivery addresses later etc.
What about offering this as an option when you right click an address? Something like "pay only using this address"? This way it would be hidden enough for the casual user but still available for power users.

Which reminds me that it would also be nice to offer "sign message using this address" in said context menu. Right now much more clicks and cut and pasting are needed to sign a message.

Transaction seen by 1 peer. Not seen in chain...

What to do?

thought on coin control and selection of inputs:
hi jim, i think no need to worry about developing the perfect feature, just allow selecting an address that should be used for sure in the payment.

if the balance is not enough, let the app chose other inputs as usual. as long as the funds are send in the same transaction, it can be proved that the one of the source addresses was chosen by the user, he can sign the group buy message with the chosen address/key and the rest of the payment comes from his wallet, so no more issues.
(if I can sign for one address used as input, i'm also able to sign with other addresses, just makes no sense to go through all the loops).

tl;dr; just pick an address that must be used for outgoing payment, the rest is already there.

The transactions that got stuck on one peer (unless it was a network failure as per the help) were most likely sent to a peer but then subsequently did not propagate through the network.

(You don't mention which version of MultiBit you sent the tx from. Anything earlier than 0.5.12 used a flat fee which can cause problems if you have big tx).

When you do a reset blockchain and transactions it syncs your wallet to what is on the blockchain and what is in the memory pool of the peer you are talking to. It would not include the transaction you sent no (because they did not propagate the network).

You don't mention if you reset the whole wallet (back to the first transaction) or not.
I would recommend resetting back to the first transaction (it is an option on the reset blockchain page). That way you can be sure that all your transactions match what is on the blockchain.

Because what your goal is is to replicate what is on the blockchain you can also use blockchain.info and blockexplorer.com to cross check you have the transactions you expect.

 Now fees are calculated automatically in 5.12 is there a way around the auto settings to force a different fee value?

Thanks, missed that one.