(In reply to Brian Hauer from comment #21) > Expanding on the example above, assume you have nicknames "wil", "jan", and > "bob". You should be able to type "wil,jan,bob" to quickly address a mail > to all three. When focus leaves the field, the parser should expand each > based on a nickname match, resulting in three entries in the addressing user > interface. > [snip] > I consider nicknames to be a special case of address resolution. As the > proponents above have said, at the least nicknames should be treated as the > #1 priority in finding a matching address. But I would recommend going > further: namely, nickname resolution should occur -after- the > comma-delimited parsing of the user's input occurs.
+1 to all of comment 21 and the underlying understanding of nicks as 1 on 1 aliases. However, focus in this bug is on giving resolved (single) nicks precedence in autocomplete results. So resolving multiple comma- separated nicks is probably beyond the scope of this bug. More reminiscent of (but perhaps not the same as) bug 295428. I'd recommend filing a separate bug for resolving a comma-separated list of nicknames. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to thunderbird in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/956618 Title: Nickname not over-riding names in email address Status in Mozilla Thunderbird Mail and News: Confirmed Status in “thunderbird” package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: From what I have read in the support forum the nickname should take priority in the search for an email address in the to: field. It does not appear to work any more. Example: One friend's address is Mark<[email protected]>. The other is James<[email protected]>. Both are in my address book with Mark entered as the nickname of [email protected] and James as nickname for [email protected]. If I type james in the To: field I get james.mark as a first entry in the list of available addresses. If I type mark I get the same address again, when I would prefer the first optional address to be [email protected] Reason it is needed: I am trying to avoid sending emails meant for [email protected] to James.mark because I do not notice in time that I have defaulted to the first entry in the list of available addresses. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10 Package: thunderbird 10.0.2+build1-0ubuntu0.11.10.1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-16.29-generic-pae 3.0.20 Uname: Linux 3.0.0-16-generic-pae i686 ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu4 Architecture: i386 BuildID: 20120216123548 Date: Fri Mar 16 00:31:06 2012 InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Release i386 (20111012) SourcePackage: thunderbird UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/thunderbird/+bug/956618/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
