[Desktop-packages] [Bug 956618] Re: Nickname not over-riding names in email address

[Paul White]

Upstream bug showing "RESOLVED FIXED" on 2015-02-03
Target milestone - Thunderbird 38.0
Confirmed working in Ubuntu 18.04 and Thunderbird 60.2.1
Closing by marking "Fix Released"


** Changed in: thunderbird (Ubuntu)
   Status: Confirmed => Fix Released

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Title:
  Nickname not over-riding names in email address

Status in Mozilla Thunderbird:
  Fix Released
Status in thunderbird package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released

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. The other is
  James. Both are in my address book with Mark
  entered as the nickname of m...@.com  and James as nickname for
  james.m...@.com.

  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 m...@.com

  Reason it is needed:
  I am trying to avoid sending emails meant for m...@.com 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)

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[Desktop-packages] [Bug 956618] Re: Nickname not over-riding names in email address

[Launchpad Bug Tracker]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

** Changed in: thunderbird (Ubuntu)
   Status: New => Confirmed

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Title:
  Nickname not over-riding names in email address

Status in Mozilla Thunderbird:
  Fix Released
Status in thunderbird package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

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. The other is
  James. Both are in my address book with Mark
  entered as the nickname of m...@.com  and James as nickname for
  james.m...@.com.

  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 m...@.com

  Reason it is needed:
  I am trying to avoid sending emails meant for m...@.com 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)

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[Desktop-packages] [Bug 956618]

[Rkent-3]

Pushed to comm-aurora https://hg.mozilla.org/releases/comm-
aurora/rev/13f0f3859462

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Title:
  Nickname not over-riding names in email address

Status in Mozilla Thunderbird Mail and News:
  Fix Released
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 Markm...@.com. The other is
  Jamesjames.m...@.com. Both are in my address book with Mark
  entered as the nickname of m...@.com  and James as nickname for
  james.m...@.com.

  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 m...@.com

  Reason it is needed:
  I am trying to avoid sending emails meant for m...@.com 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)

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[Desktop-packages] [Bug 956618]

[St7ve]

As one of the affected users, I want to plead with whoever has the clout
to get this fixed as soon as, I find myself misaddressing messages
practically every day since the latest release, which to me feels like a
crime, to be honest it feels to me like something which needs fixing
between releases

Going through the history of this, I spotted somone else's comment that
the word nickname appeared on no less than 265 different threads on the
getsatisfaction system, which sure sounds to me like a lot of people
care (and will currently be in a state of disappointment)

Is there some sort of QA postmortem going on as to how this managed to
get released in such a poor state?  I don't mean to express (or provoke)
anger with this point, I just think it's really useful to contemplate
how the organisation has managed such a cock-up and how not to do it
again.

Would it help if I volunteered to evaluate what is now proposed?

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Title:
  Nickname not over-riding names in email address

Status in Mozilla Thunderbird Mail and News:
  Fix Released
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 Markm...@.com. The other is
  Jamesjames.m...@.com. Both are in my address book with Mark
  entered as the nickname of m...@.com  and James as nickname for
  james.m...@.com.

  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 m...@.com

  Reason it is needed:
  I am trying to avoid sending emails meant for m...@.com 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)

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[Desktop-packages] [Bug 956618]

[Bugzilla2007]

Magnus, thanks for approving this for beta and aurora.

(In reply to Magnus Melin from comment #103)
 As seen in the past every minor change might get someones use-case slightly
 wrong.
 We have usually let patches bake through aurora+beta before esr, but with 38
 coming up soonish I think what gets into 31esr should also be stricter.
 
 Based on other reports, there may be something fishy happening regarding
 popularityindex, but I haven't had time to investigate that yet.

Well, apart from the fact that popularityIndex is broken by design
(because it just counts up forever so doesn't consider recency), the
fishy thing which happened to popularityIndex is that your patch with
new scoring algorithm in Bug 970456 effectively disables it for an
unpredictably large number of usecases where search string happens to
match the visible results strings in a wordwise manner, more so for
matching the beginning of the visible result string, which is typically
the display name. So no matter now popular certain results are, they can
never get to the top.

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Title:
  Nickname not over-riding names in email address

Status in Mozilla Thunderbird Mail and News:
  Fix Released
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 Markm...@.com. The other is
  Jamesjames.m...@.com. Both are in my address book with Mark
  entered as the nickname of m...@.com  and James as nickname for
  james.m...@.com.

  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 m...@.com

  Reason it is needed:
  I am trying to avoid sending emails meant for m...@.com 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)

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[Vseerror]

(In reply to steve hayes from comment #101)
 Going through the history of this, I spotted somone else's comment that the
 word nickname appeared on no less than 265 different threads on the
 getsatisfaction system, which sure sounds to me like a lot of people care
 (and will currently be in a state of disappointment)

I'm sorry to report that Getsatisfaction search (as well as the current
SUMO search) is notoriously bad about giving false search hits just
because.  So I'd doubt as many as 50 getsatifaction threads were solid
hits about nickname autocomplete.  On the current SUMO it is maybe about
a dozen.

 Is there some sort of QA postmortem going on as to how this managed to get
 released in such a poor state?  I don't mean to express (or provoke) anger
 with this point, I just think it's really useful to contemplate how the
 organisation has managed such a cock-up and how not to do it again.

The issues that got us here are pretty well understood by those
involved. But probably the biggest hit to the end result (besides lack
of personnel and competing priorities) was the lack of automated tests.
Automated tests are in effect a spec - they define how the function
should behave. Without automated tests, it's a crap shoot to know
whether someone's new code functions worse, or better, than the old
code. But lack of tests is not the fault of the current developers.

 Would it help if I volunteered to evaluate what is now proposed?

If you wish to help, there are many opportunties to give of your time
(and time is what we most need).
https://wiki.mozilla.org/Thunderbird#Contributing

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Title:
  Nickname not over-riding names in email address

Status in Mozilla Thunderbird Mail and News:
  Fix Released
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 Markm...@.com. The other is
  Jamesjames.m...@.com. Both are in my address book with Mark
  entered as the nickname of m...@.com  and James as nickname for
  james.m...@.com.

  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 m...@.com

  Reason it is needed:
  I am trying to avoid sending emails meant for m...@.com 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)

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[Desktop-packages] [Bug 956618]

[Mkmelin+mozilla]

Comment on attachment 8558325
Patch for check-in

Review of attachment 8558325:
-

We should land this for aurora+beta.

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Title:
  Nickname not over-riding names in email address

Status in Mozilla Thunderbird Mail and News:
  Fix Released
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 Markm...@.com. The other is
  Jamesjames.m...@.com. Both are in my address book with Mark
  entered as the nickname of m...@.com  and James as nickname for
  james.m...@.com.

  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 m...@.com

  Reason it is needed:
  I am trying to avoid sending emails meant for m...@.com 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)

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[Desktop-packages] [Bug 956618]

[Mkmelin+mozilla]

As seen in the past every minor change might get someones use-case slightly 
wrong.
We have usually let patches bake through aurora+beta before esr, but with 38 
coming up soonish I think what gets into 31esr should also be stricter.

Based on other reports, there may be something fishy happening regarding
popularityindex, but I haven't had time to investigate that yet.

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Title:
  Nickname not over-riding names in email address

Status in Mozilla Thunderbird Mail and News:
  Fix Released
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 Markm...@.com. The other is
  Jamesjames.m...@.com. Both are in my address book with Mark
  entered as the nickname of m...@.com  and James as nickname for
  james.m...@.com.

  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 m...@.com

  Reason it is needed:
  I am trying to avoid sending emails meant for m...@.com 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)

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[Desktop-packages] [Bug 956618]

[Mkmelin+mozilla]

I don't think this is ESR material as it's a new behavior not fixing a
regression.

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Title:
  Nickname not over-riding names in email address

Status in Mozilla Thunderbird Mail and News:
  Fix Released
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 Markm...@.com. The other is
  Jamesjames.m...@.com. Both are in my address book with Mark
  entered as the nickname of m...@.com  and James as nickname for
  james.m...@.com.

  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 m...@.com

  Reason it is needed:
  I am trying to avoid sending emails meant for m...@.com 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)

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[Desktop-packages] [Bug 956618]

[Vseerror]

It is important to be nit-picky when one is in the role of deciding what
to take on ESR, lest we get excessivly loosey goosey with our standards
- which are looser than Firefox's, and thus have grey areas which
necessitate judgement calls ultimately made by one person.

But I support the request for ESR uplift for one reason only, if comment
97 paragraph 2 is correct and the current net effect behavior to the
user is it *appears* to be a regression - that's all that matters.  So
if patch has no known, and little to no likelihood of having, side
effects, then I think we should take it. (Also, we have taken patches on
ESR that do not fix recent regressions.)

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Title:
  Nickname not over-riding names in email address

Status in Mozilla Thunderbird Mail and News:
  Fix Released
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 Markm...@.com. The other is
  Jamesjames.m...@.com. Both are in my address book with Mark
  entered as the nickname of m...@.com  and James as nickname for
  james.m...@.com.

  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 m...@.com

  Reason it is needed:
  I am trying to avoid sending emails meant for m...@.com 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)

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[Desktop-packages] [Bug 956618]

[Bugzilla2007]

(In reply to Magnus Melin from comment #98)
 I don't think this is ESR material as it's a new behavior not fixing a
 regression.

In view of 33 votes here and the quantity of bugs reported against
autocomplete result sorting algorithm, I find that evaluation
nitpicking. While in a strictly technical sense, this might not be a
regression, it's actually worse:

1) Once upon a time we delivered a feature which apparently has never
worked as intended and required by inherent design. That's a significant
failure which shouldn't have to wait any longer when it's finally fixed
9 years after being reported.

2) We have only recently exposed this problem significantly more by
expanding the scope of recipient search for certain scenarios. So, as
seen from numerous reports, users are now more affected by this design
problem, because of the changes made in recent version. Technicalities
aside, that looks like a de-facto regression to me (as confirmed by
users saying it used to work until recently but now it fails).

I don't see any risks coming from this straightforward patch, except
that we're undermmining popularityIndex a bit more again, but this works
on exactly the same terms and conditions as Bug 970456 so there's
nothing new here.

So I still think this 5-line-patch should land on ESR.

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Title:
  Nickname not over-riding names in email address

Status in Mozilla Thunderbird Mail and News:
  Fix Released
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 Markm...@.com. The other is
  Jamesjames.m...@.com. Both are in my address book with Mark
  entered as the nickname of m...@.com  and James as nickname for
  james.m...@.com.

  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 m...@.com

  Reason it is needed:
  I am trying to avoid sending emails meant for m...@.com 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)

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[Desktop-packages] [Bug 956618]

[Bugzilla2007]

*** Bug 1132681 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

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Title:
  Nickname not over-riding names in email address

Status in Mozilla Thunderbird Mail and News:
  Fix Released
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 Markm...@.com. The other is
  Jamesjames.m...@.com. Both are in my address book with Mark
  entered as the nickname of m...@.com  and James as nickname for
  james.m...@.com.

  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 m...@.com

  Reason it is needed:
  I am trying to avoid sending emails meant for m...@.com 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
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[Desktop-packages] [Bug 956618]

[Bugzilla2007]

Magnus, can you please set the appropriate flags to get this into a TB
release version as soon as possible, even for TB31 if possible?

I'm seeing more and more bug reports where users complain that nickname
searches no longer work (they never have, but they appeared to... but
now, depending on scenario / search words and data sets, users might see
more irrelevant results, also because of irrelevant matches from
collected addresses, resulting from our former mis-design (now fixed) to
use collected addresses for remote-content permissions).

We should really land all autocomplete fixes fast, to avoid getting more
unqualified complaints for things we have already fixed.

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Title:
  Nickname not over-riding names in email address

Status in Mozilla Thunderbird Mail and News:
  Fix Released
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 Markm...@.com. The other is
  Jamesjames.m...@.com. Both are in my address book with Mark
  entered as the nickname of m...@.com  and James as nickname for
  james.m...@.com.

  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 m...@.com

  Reason it is needed:
  I am trying to avoid sending emails meant for m...@.com 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)

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[Desktop-packages] [Bug 956618]

[G-geoff]

I've pushed this as https://hg.mozilla.org/comm-central/rev/5f277274b13f

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Title:
  Nickname not over-riding names in email address

Status in Mozilla Thunderbird Mail and News:
  Fix Released
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 Markm...@.com. The other is
  Jamesjames.m...@.com. Both are in my address book with Mark
  entered as the nickname of m...@.com  and James as nickname for
  james.m...@.com.

  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 m...@.com

  Reason it is needed:
  I am trying to avoid sending emails meant for m...@.com 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)

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[Desktop-packages] [Bug 956618] Re: Nickname not over-riding names in email address

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** Changed in: thunderbird
   Status: Confirmed = Fix Released

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Title:
  Nickname not over-riding names in email address

Status in Mozilla Thunderbird Mail and News:
  Fix Released
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 Markm...@.com. The other is
  Jamesjames.m...@.com. Both are in my address book with Mark
  entered as the nickname of m...@.com  and James as nickname for
  james.m...@.com.

  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 m...@.com

  Reason it is needed:
  I am trying to avoid sending emails meant for m...@.com 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)

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[Desktop-packages] [Bug 956618]

[Mkmelin+mozilla]

Comment on attachment 8557496
Patch v2

Review of attachment 8557496:
-

Hmm, Thomas has some point. So here's what I think we should do:

if (nick == aSearchString)
  return BEST+1;
if (nickIndex == 0)
  return BEST;

r=mkmelin, with that and test adjusted to pass (if needed)

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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 Markm...@.com. The other is
  Jamesjames.m...@.com. Both are in my address book with Mark
  entered as the nickname of m...@.com  and James as nickname for
  james.m...@.com.

  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 m...@.com

  Reason it is needed:
  I am trying to avoid sending emails meant for m...@.com 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)

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[Desktop-packages] [Bug 956618]

[Syshagarwal]

Created attachment 8558325
Patch for check-in

Made the suggested changes.

Thanks.

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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 Markm...@.com. The other is
  Jamesjames.m...@.com. Both are in my address book with Mark
  entered as the nickname of m...@.com  and James as nickname for
  james.m...@.com.

  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 m...@.com

  Reason it is needed:
  I am trying to avoid sending emails meant for m...@.com 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
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[Desktop-packages] [Bug 956618]

[Bugzilla2007]

(In reply to Magnus Melin from comment #92)
 Comment on attachment 8557496
 Patch v2
 
 Review of attachment 8557496:
 -
 
 Hmm, Thomas has some point. So here's what I think we should do:
 
 if (nick == aSearchString)
   return BEST+1;
 if (nickIndex == 0)
   return BEST;

Cool! Looks like it could be an elegant solution to problems mentioned
in my comment 88. Thanks, great teamwork!

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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 Markm...@.com. The other is
  Jamesjames.m...@.com. Both are in my address book with Mark
  entered as the nickname of m...@.com  and James as nickname for
  james.m...@.com.

  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 m...@.com

  Reason it is needed:
  I am trying to avoid sending emails meant for m...@.com 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)

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[Desktop-packages] [Bug 956618]

[Bugzilla2007]

(In reply to Thomas D. from comment #88)
 Comment on attachment 8557496
 Patch v2
 
 Review of attachment 8557496:
 -
 
 True, but still not sufficient for ensuring absolute top ranking for *full*
 nickname matches over *partial* nickname matches, e.g.:
 Card1: Nickname=foo (nick==searchphrase; nickIndex==0)
 Card2: Nickname=foobar (nick!=searchphrase; nickIndex==0)
 Searchphrase: foo
 
 Autocomplete result (wrong):
 Card2 (partial nick match)
 Card1 (full nick match)

That result can occur e.g. when Card2 has a higher popularityIndex than Card1.
It shouldn't occur because full nickname matches (by inherent design) must 
supersede any other match, regardless of popularity.

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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 Markm...@.com. The other is
  Jamesjames.m...@.com. Both are in my address book with Mark
  entered as the nickname of m...@.com  and James as nickname for
  james.m...@.com.

  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 m...@.com

  Reason it is needed:
  I am trying to avoid sending emails meant for m...@.com 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)

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[Bugzilla2007]

Nit: While we are here, can you please fix this comment:

http://mxr.mozilla.org/comm-central/source/mailnews/addrbook/src/nsAbAutoCompleteSearch.js#152
 152 // :xx:, jd, who.
152 // :xx, jd, who.

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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 Markm...@.com. The other is
  Jamesjames.m...@.com. Both are in my address book with Mark
  entered as the nickname of m...@.com  and James as nickname for
  james.m...@.com.

  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 m...@.com

  Reason it is needed:
  I am trying to avoid sending emails meant for m...@.com 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)

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[Bugzilla2007]

(In reply to Michael Gile from comment #80)
 and one should not have to wait .5s for the autocomplete to prefill to hit 
 tab.

Michael, that's Bug 1012397.

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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 Markm...@.com. The other is
  Jamesjames.m...@.com. Both are in my address book with Mark
  entered as the nickname of m...@.com  and James as nickname for
  james.m...@.com.

  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 m...@.com

  Reason it is needed:
  I am trying to avoid sending emails meant for m...@.com 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)

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[Desktop-packages] [Bug 956618]

[Mkmelin+mozilla]

Comment on attachment 8556897
Patch v1

Review of attachment 8556897:
-

::: mailnews/addrbook/src/nsAbAutoCompleteSearch.js
@@ +128,5 @@
 * Gets the score of the (full) address, given the search input. We want
 * results that match the beginning of a word in the result to score 
 better
 * than a result that matches only in the middle of the word.
 *
 +   * @param aCard - The card whose score is being decided

lowercase t?

@@ +139,5 @@
 +
 +// We will firstly check if the search term provided by the user
 +// is the nick name for the card or at least in the beginning of it.
 +let nick = aCard.getProperty(NickName, );
 +nick = nick.toLocaleLowerCase();

you can just put .toLocaleLowerCase() after getPropery above

@@ +140,5 @@
 +// We will firstly check if the search term provided by the user
 +// is the nick name for the card or at least in the beginning of it.
 +let nick = aCard.getProperty(NickName, );
 +nick = nick.toLocaleLowerCase();
 +aSearchString = aSearchString.toLocaleLowerCase();

remove the duplication of this below.

@@ +143,5 @@
 +nick = nick.toLocaleLowerCase();
 +aSearchString = aSearchString.toLocaleLowerCase();
 +let nickIndex = nick.indexOf(aSearchString);
 +if (nick == aSearchString || nickIndex == 0)
 +  return BEST;

You don't need the nick == aSearchString
But, this doesn't quite do what this bug requests. What is requested is that 
nick should act as a super-best match. so the score should be 1 better than 
if it matched in display name - as is they would be equal (BEST + 1)

Please also adjust the test for this. There should be one test where the
nick is the beginning of another persons name.

::: mailnews/addrbook/test/unit/test_nsAbAutoCompleteSearch6.js
@@ +139,5 @@
  card.setProperty(PopularityIndex, element.popularityIndex);
  card.firstName = element.firstName;
  card.lastName = element.lastName;
 +if (element.NickName)
 +  card.setProperty(NickName, element.NickName);

You don't need the if I think. All the other props are also just set to
undefined if not set. Also, please lowerCamelCase NickName

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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 Markm...@.com. The other is
  Jamesjames.m...@.com. Both are in my address book with Mark
  entered as the nickname of m...@.com  and James as nickname for
  james.m...@.com.

  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 m...@.com

  Reason it is needed:
  I am trying to avoid sending emails meant for m...@.com 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
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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 Markm...@.com. The other is
  Jamesjames.m...@.com. Both are in my address book with Mark
  entered as the nickname of m...@.com  and James as nickname for
  james.m...@.com.

  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 m...@.com

  Reason it is needed:
  I am trying to avoid sending emails meant for m...@.com 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
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[Desktop-packages] [Bug 956618]

[Syshagarwal]

Created attachment 8557496
Patch v2

Made the suggested changes.

Thanks.

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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 Markm...@.com. The other is
  Jamesjames.m...@.com. Both are in my address book with Mark
  entered as the nickname of m...@.com  and James as nickname for
  james.m...@.com.

  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 m...@.com

  Reason it is needed:
  I am trying to avoid sending emails meant for m...@.com 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
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[Desktop-packages] [Bug 956618]

[Bugzilla2007]

Comment on attachment 8557496
Patch v2

Review of attachment 8557496:
-

Thanks a lot Suyash for your quick response to my request to pick this
up - I am really getting tired of referencing and explaining this bug
(and workaround) in other bugs where users have been facing problems due
to this major flaw which practically disables the entire nickname
functionality for a range of scenarios.

I'll set feedback+ because we're on the right track here; but the devil
- as always - in the detail (i.e. this patch as-is won't work yet as
expected)...

::: mailnews/addrbook/src/nsAbAutoCompleteSearch.js
@@ +141,5 @@
 +// is the nick name for the card or at least in the beginning of it.
 +let nick = aCard.getProperty(NickName, ).toLocaleLowerCase();
 +aSearchString = aSearchString.toLocaleLowerCase();
 +if (nick.indexOf(aSearchString) == 0)
 +  return BEST + 1;

(In reply to Magnus Melin from comment #86)
 You don't need the nick == aSearchString
 nick should act as a super-best match. so the score should be 1 better
 than if it matched in display name - as is they would be equal (= we need 
 BEST + 1)

True, but still not sufficient for ensuring absolute top ranking for *full* 
nickname matches over *partial* nickname matches, e.g.:
Card1: Nickname=foo (nick==searchphrase; nickIndex==0)
Card2: Nickname=foobar (nick!=searchphrase; nickIndex==0)
Searchphrase: foo

Autocomplete result (wrong):
Card2 (partial nick match)
Card1 (full nick match)

To make the nickname design work reliably, full nickname match must
obviously supersede partial nickname match, so we would need to adjust
the scoring accordingly:

if (nick == aSearchString)
  return BEST+2;
if (nickIndex == 0)
  return BEST+1;

However, I'm not convinced yet if making initial nickname matches rank
higher than anything else will really work out well, e.g.:

Card1: Display Name=Tom popularityIndex=10
Card2: Nickname=TomFoo popularityIndex=5
Card3: Nickname=TomBar popularityIndex=4
Searchphrase: Tom

Autocomplete result:
Card2 (partial nickname match, pi=5)
Card3 (partial nickname match, pi=4)
Card1 (full display name match, pi=10)

So I'm not sure if all results with partial matches on nickname should
rank higher than full match on display name; should they? (I think not).
Worse, PLEASE let's be aware that any forced top scorings that are not
based on frecency will further undermine even the current rudimentary
frequency implemtation of popularityIndex:

Card1: Display Name=Tom popularityIndex=1000
Card2: Nickname=TomFoo popularityIndex=5
Card3: Nickname=TomBar popularityIndex=4
Card4: Nickname=Tim popularityIndex=6
Card5: Nickname=TD popularityIndex=7
Searchphrase: T

Autocomplete result:
(all partial nickname matches top-listed, ordered by popularity:)
Card5
Card4
Card2
Card3
(then, potentially far down the list:)
Card1 (initial Display name match; popularityIndex=1000(!))

So in this case, even for partial nickname matches from single-
character(!) search phrase, ALL partial nickname matches will be
toplisted (although they are not popular at all, and the partial match
on their nicknames is entirely insignificant!), whereas highly popular
Card1 with an inital match on Display name will rank lower than all the
insignificant matches.

Undermining frecency-based sorting more is imo a slippery approach
because we'll never find a one-for-all algorithm to predict which
address the user actually wants, but frecency (linked up with the
actual user input) will certainly be one of our best bets. I think.
These things are actually pretty complex...

Please correct me if I'm wrong, but I conclude that it'll be safer if we
just fix the main usecase of this bug, which is FULL nickname matches;
let the rest be handled by our existing algorithm. So I suspect that
this should be sufficient:

if (nick == aSearchString)
  return BEST+1;

Also, since full nickname matches (per inherent design) must really
always be toplisted without exception (regardless of any other sorting
algorithms we might think of), I wonder if we should leave some room in
the score for pushing other matches into the best+ range:

if (nick == aSearchString)
  return BEST+100;

Further technical reviews might want to test and improve performance
against large ABs.

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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 Markm...@.com. The other is
  Jamesjames.m...@.com. Both are in my address book with Mark
  entered 

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 956618]

[St7ve]

I have submitted a new bug 1127258 which describes a new problem when
selecting an address in TB31 (31.4); that's two addressing problems
introduced with this version of TB which result in emails going to the
wong person unless one takes special care.

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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 Markm...@.com. The other is
  Jamesjames.m...@.com. Both are in my address book with Mark
  entered as the nickname of m...@.com  and James as nickname for
  james.m...@.com.

  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 m...@.com

  Reason it is needed:
  I am trying to avoid sending emails meant for m...@.com 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)
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[Desktop-packages] [Bug 956618]

[Bugzilla2007]

(In reply to Magnus Melin from comment #82)
 This should be pretty straight forward to fix, now that bug 970456 is fixed.
 You'd just adjust the scoring there to be higher if it's a match in nickname.

Suyash, could you try this? It's pretty important to offer a 100%
predictable way of using autocomplete shortcuts... Magnus has
volunteered to mentor this ;)

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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 Markm...@.com. The other is
  Jamesjames.m...@.com. Both are in my address book with Mark
  entered as the nickname of m...@.com  and James as nickname for
  james.m...@.com.

  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 m...@.com

  Reason it is needed:
  I am trying to avoid sending emails meant for m...@.com 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
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[Desktop-packages] [Bug 956618]

[Syshagarwal]

Created attachment 8556897
Patch v1

Oh, I thought it was supposed to be for someone looking for getting started.
If its urgent, here's an attempt.

Thanks.

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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 Markm...@.com. The other is
  Jamesjames.m...@.com. Both are in my address book with Mark
  entered as the nickname of m...@.com  and James as nickname for
  james.m...@.com.

  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 m...@.com

  Reason it is needed:
  I am trying to avoid sending emails meant for m...@.com 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)
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[Desktop-packages] [Bug 956618]

[Mkmelin+mozilla]

This should be pretty straight forward to fix, now that bug 970456 is
fixed. You'd just adjust the scoring there to be higher if it's a match
in nickname.

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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 Markm...@.com. The other is
  Jamesjames.m...@.com. Both are in my address book with Mark
  entered as the nickname of m...@.com  and James as nickname for
  james.m...@.com.

  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 m...@.com

  Reason it is needed:
  I am trying to avoid sending emails meant for m...@.com 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)

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[Desktop-packages] [Bug 956618]

[St7ve]

It's become a problem again in TB31.4 (or perhaps a little bit earlier)
(with the visibly different compose window)

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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 Markm...@.com. The other is
  Jamesjames.m...@.com. Both are in my address book with Mark
  entered as the nickname of m...@.com  and James as nickname for
  james.m...@.com.

  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 m...@.com

  Reason it is needed:
  I am trying to avoid sending emails meant for m...@.com 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)

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[Desktop-packages] [Bug 956618]

[Gilem]

Exact match was the change that happened to me at some point in the past
year.  I have a few short nicknames like 'jim'. In previous version,
typing quickly jim[tab] instantly prefilled from the nickname.  In the
newer versions, if there are any addresses in the book starting with
jim, the behavior is to put a red 'jim' in the to box, and not allow
sending at all.  I fail to see the point of the nickname if it is not
used, and one should not have to wait .5s for the autocomplete to
prefill to hit tab.

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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 Markm...@.com. The other is
  Jamesjames.m...@.com. Both are in my address book with Mark
  entered as the nickname of m...@.com  and James as nickname for
  james.m...@.com.

  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 m...@.com

  Reason it is needed:
  I am trying to avoid sending emails meant for m...@.com 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)

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[Desktop-packages] [Bug 956618]

[Syshagarwal]

I don't think I have to say anything now about this.
Thanks.

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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 Markm...@.com. The other is
  Jamesjames.m...@.com. Both are in my address book with Mark
  entered as the nickname of m...@.com  and James as nickname for
  james.m...@.com.

  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 m...@.com

  Reason it is needed:
  I am trying to avoid sending emails meant for m...@.com 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)

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[Desktop-packages] [Bug 956618]

[Hoserjoe]

(In reply to :aceman from comment #76)
 So no need to worry.

Are you joking?  None of the fancy nick-name, frequency searches work,
the alpha searches produce gibbled results! The sidebar list is out of
order.  The whole thing is a broken down, useless wreck!  A simple alpha
search on Display Name would at least give us something to work with.
Start listening with full attention, please!

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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 Markm...@.com. The other is
  Jamesjames.m...@.com. Both are in my address book with Mark
  entered as the nickname of m...@.com  and James as nickname for
  james.m...@.com.

  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 m...@.com

  Reason it is needed:
  I am trying to avoid sending emails meant for m...@.com 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)

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[Acelists]

Then please post it in the relevant bug, not one about autocomplete.
Thanks.

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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 Markm...@.com. The other is
  Jamesjames.m...@.com. Both are in my address book with Mark
  entered as the nickname of m...@.com  and James as nickname for
  james.m...@.com.

  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 m...@.com

  Reason it is needed:
  I am trying to avoid sending emails meant for m...@.com 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)

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[Tilmann-reh]

José, just because you don't know and/or use nicknames doesn't mean they
are obscure, useless or don't make any sense. Particularly for me,
nicknames (in most cases just the initials) are the (by far!) preferred
and fastest way to enter a recipients address. Just enter two or three
letters and pick the adress from the upcoming (very short) list. This
has always worked perfectly fine for many years (since early Netscape),
until it was broken due to some enhancements to the search function.
We just want that to be repaired.

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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 Markm...@.com. The other is
  Jamesjames.m...@.com. Both are in my address book with Mark
  entered as the nickname of m...@.com  and James as nickname for
  james.m...@.com.

  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 m...@.com

  Reason it is needed:
  I am trying to avoid sending emails meant for m...@.com 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)

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[Bugzilla2007]

(In reply to José Josephus from comment #73)
 rant Such an incredible waste of resources! [...] Getting carried away
 with complicated search methods as described above is complete
 nonsense!/rant end

I've addressed the obvious social and factual shortcomings of that
comment via private mail, including a link to
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/page.cgi?id=etiquette.html.

(In reply to Tilmann Reh from comment #74)
 José, just because you don't know and/or use nicknames doesn't mean they are
 obscure, useless or don't make any sense. Particularly for me, nicknames (in
 most cases just the initials) are the (by far!) preferred and fastest way to
 enter a recipients address. Just enter two or three letters and pick the
 adress from the upcoming (very short) list. This has always worked perfectly
 fine for many years (since early Netscape), until it was broken due to some
 enhancements to the search function. We just want that to be repaired.

+1. Thanks Tilmann.
We've heard your plea and we're working to repair that in Bug 970456, while 
preserving the actual enhancements of the search functions which we 
introduced to fix other bugs and cater for legitimate user expections.

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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 Markm...@.com. The other is
  Jamesjames.m...@.com. Both are in my address book with Mark
  entered as the nickname of m...@.com  and James as nickname for
  james.m...@.com.

  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 m...@.com

  Reason it is needed:
  I am trying to avoid sending emails meant for m...@.com 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)

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[Hoserjoe]

rant Such an incredible waste of resources!  For years, I have puzzled
about the use of the Nickname field, and now I see that it actually
fits into someone's unbelievably obscure search algorithm that nobody in
the known world has ever relied upon.  Why anyone would go to all the
work described here to organize each card to be searched by these
esoteric methods is totally beyond reason.

All that is needed is a simple alpha index and search.  If the
developers are infatuated with exotic search methods to pad their
resumes, fine, but leave us real world users with a simple alpha search.
Getting carried away with complicated search methods as described above
is complete nonsense!/rant end

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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 Markm...@.com. The other is
  Jamesjames.m...@.com. Both are in my address book with Mark
  entered as the nickname of m...@.com  and James as nickname for
  james.m...@.com.

  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 m...@.com

  Reason it is needed:
  I am trying to avoid sending emails meant for m...@.com 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)

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[Desktop-packages] [Bug 956618]

[Acelists]

All this talk is about the recipient autocomplete in the address widget.
All the other searches (contacts sidebar, search in addressbook window
and Edit-Search addresses should still sort alphabetically (by the
column that is selected)). So no need to worry.

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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 Markm...@.com. The other is
  Jamesjames.m...@.com. Both are in my address book with Mark
  entered as the nickname of m...@.com  and James as nickname for
  james.m...@.com.

  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 m...@.com

  Reason it is needed:
  I am trying to avoid sending emails meant for m...@.com 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)

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[Bugzilla2007]

OT: (In reply to :aceman from comment #68)
   Now I can't send to a list!
  j.mccranie, problem appreciated, but it's not related to this bug so let's
  be focused. Feel free to file a new bug if this isn't on record yet. But I
  think I've seen a recent bug for that which I can't find right now.
 
 Should have been fixed in TB31.1.1 via bug 1060901.

Thanks for the reference on that mailing list bug, and from there, the
other one I had in mind was Bug 1008718.

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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 Markm...@.com. The other is
  Jamesjames.m...@.com. Both are in my address book with Mark
  entered as the nickname of m...@.com  and James as nickname for
  james.m...@.com.

  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 m...@.com

  Reason it is needed:
  I am trying to avoid sending emails meant for m...@.com 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)

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[Bugzilla2007]

Aceman, Suyash, sorry for nagging, but given the added importance of
this bug for the current autocomplete UX, could you answer to my Comment
59?

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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 Markm...@.com. The other is
  Jamesjames.m...@.com. Both are in my address book with Mark
  entered as the nickname of m...@.com  and James as nickname for
  james.m...@.com.

  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 m...@.com

  Reason it is needed:
  I am trying to avoid sending emails meant for m...@.com 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)

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[Bugzilla2007]

(In reply to :aceman from comment #71)
 The infrastructure created in bug 970456 should make it easy to prioritize
 anything we want. Unless deciding about the priority of each contact is slow
 and so unnacceptable for large result sets.

I want to believe so too, but aren't we sorting plain *results* there
*after* the fact (aka email addresses, potentially two from each card),
whereas for nickname we need to retrieve that at a much earlier point
where we still have access to the card (and going back from email to
card would be error-prone in current flawed design of AB)? In fact,
since a card can have 2 mail addresses, both of them might have to be
toplisted in case of nickname match, primary address first.

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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 Markm...@.com. The other is
  Jamesjames.m...@.com. Both are in my address book with Mark
  entered as the nickname of m...@.com  and James as nickname for
  james.m...@.com.

  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 m...@.com

  Reason it is needed:
  I am trying to avoid sending emails meant for m...@.com 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)

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[Acelists]

The infrastructure created in bug 970456 should make it easy to
prioritize anything we want. Unless deciding about the priority of each
contact is slow and so unnacceptable for large result sets.

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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 Markm...@.com. The other is
  Jamesjames.m...@.com. Both are in my address book with Mark
  entered as the nickname of m...@.com  and James as nickname for
  james.m...@.com.

  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 m...@.com

  Reason it is needed:
  I am trying to avoid sending emails meant for m...@.com 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
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[Bugzilla2007]

*** Bug 323364 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

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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 Markm...@.com. The other is
  Jamesjames.m...@.com. Both are in my address book with Mark
  entered as the nickname of m...@.com  and James as nickname for
  james.m...@.com.

  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 m...@.com

  Reason it is needed:
  I am trying to avoid sending emails meant for m...@.com 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)

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[Desktop-packages] [Bug 956618]

[JLuc]

(In reply to yanlu from comment #60)
 I have a quite large email adress book : 525 collected adresses and 15000
 personnal adresses. Thunderbird is badly impacted with the TB31 email 
 autocompletion behaviour :
 - it sometimes does not lead to any result and leaves the input without 
 autocompleting it. 
 - it sometimes require to type allmost the whole email before the
 autocompletion gives a result
 - it sometimes leads to bad results.

Seems fixed in TB 31.1.1 with
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=984875 fix.

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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 Markm...@.com. The other is
  Jamesjames.m...@.com. Both are in my address book with Mark
  entered as the nickname of m...@.com  and James as nickname for
  james.m...@.com.

  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 m...@.com

  Reason it is needed:
  I am trying to avoid sending emails meant for m...@.com 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)

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[Desktop-packages] [Bug 956618]

[Bugzilla2007]

(In reply to j.mccranie from comment #62)
 Now I can't send to a list!

j.mccranie, problem appreciated, but it's not related to this bug so
let's be focused. Feel free to file a new bug if this isn't on record
yet. But I think I've seen a recent bug for that which I can't find
right now.

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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 Markm...@.com. The other is
  Jamesjames.m...@.com. Both are in my address book with Mark
  entered as the nickname of m...@.com  and James as nickname for
  james.m...@.com.

  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 m...@.com

  Reason it is needed:
  I am trying to avoid sending emails meant for m...@.com 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)

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[Desktop-packages] [Bug 956618]

[Bugzilla2007]

(In reply to yanlu from comment #64)
 (In reply to yanlu from comment #60)
  I have a quite large email adress book : 525 collected adresses and 15000
  personnal adresses. Thunderbird is badly impacted with the TB31 email 
  autocompletion behaviour :
 Seems fixed in TB 31.1.1 with
 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=984875 fix.

Yanlu, thanks for reporting back with user feedback which is generally welcome.
However, the autocomplete problems you mention are not related to this bug, so 
let's avoid them here. Moreover, let's avoid unspecified general statements 
like Seems fixed which might easily be misunderstood to mean this bug here is 
fixed, which is NOT the case.
But yes, we're in the process of fixing things in recipient autocomplete; some 
fixes have already been released, and more pending, e.g. Bug 970456.

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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 Markm...@.com. The other is
  Jamesjames.m...@.com. Both are in my address book with Mark
  entered as the nickname of m...@.com  and James as nickname for
  james.m...@.com.

  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 m...@.com

  Reason it is needed:
  I am trying to avoid sending emails meant for m...@.com 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)

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[Acelists]

(In reply to Thomas D. from comment #67)
 (In reply to j.mccranie from comment #62)
 Has something changed within the last few days?  I have a mailing list for a
 weekly club, and each week I send out a notice.  I used to be able to type
 the start of the name and it would send the email to the list.  Now it says
 that it is not a valid email address because it is not of the form
 user@host, so it doesn't send it to the list.  I couldn't figure out any way
 to send to the list.
  Now I can't send to a list!
 
 j.mccranie, problem appreciated, but it's not related to this bug so let's
 be focused. Feel free to file a new bug if this isn't on record yet. But I
 think I've seen a recent bug for that which I can't find right now.

Should have been fixed in TB31.1.1 via bug 1060901.

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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 Markm...@.com. The other is
  Jamesjames.m...@.com. Both are in my address book with Mark
  entered as the nickname of m...@.com  and James as nickname for
  james.m...@.com.

  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 m...@.com

  Reason it is needed:
  I am trying to avoid sending emails meant for m...@.com 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)

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[Desktop-packages] [Bug 956618] Re: Nickname not over-riding names in email address

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** Bug watch added: Mozilla Bugzilla #984875
   https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=984875

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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 Markm...@.com. The other is
  Jamesjames.m...@.com. Both are in my address book with Mark
  entered as the nickname of m...@.com  and James as nickname for
  james.m...@.com.

  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 m...@.com

  Reason it is needed:
  I am trying to avoid sending emails meant for m...@.com 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)

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[Desktop-packages] [Bug 956618]

[J-mccranie]

Now I can't send to a list!

Has something changed within the last few days?  I have a mailing list
for a weekly club, and each week I send out a notice.  I used to be able
to type the start of the name and it would send the email to the list.
Now it says that it is not a valid email address because it is not of
the form user@host, so it doesn't send it to the list.  I couldn't
figure out any way to send to the list.

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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 Markm...@.com. The other is
  Jamesjames.m...@.com. Both are in my address book with Mark
  entered as the nickname of m...@.com  and James as nickname for
  james.m...@.com.

  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 m...@.com

  Reason it is needed:
  I am trying to avoid sending emails meant for m...@.com 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)

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[Desktop-packages] [Bug 956618]

[J-mccranie]

When I blanked out the description of the mailing list, then it would
send to the list again.

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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 Markm...@.com. The other is
  Jamesjames.m...@.com. Both are in my address book with Mark
  entered as the nickname of m...@.com  and James as nickname for
  james.m...@.com.

  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 m...@.com

  Reason it is needed:
  I am trying to avoid sending emails meant for m...@.com 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)

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[Desktop-packages] [Bug 956618]

[JLuc]

I have a quite large email adress book : 525 collected adresses and
15000 personnal adresses. My colleagues have a less large email adress
book but both my thunderbird and my coworker's thunderbird is badly
impacted with the new TB31 email autocompletion behaviour.

- it sometimes does not lead to any result and leaves the typed begining of the 
email as is, without autocompleting it. Ex : when typing 'secret' and TAB, TB 
leaves 'secret' instead of completing to 'secretar...@domain.ext'
- it sometimes require to type allmost the whole email before the 
autocompletion gives a result : we sometime have to type 'secretariat@' so as 
to get 'secretar...@domain.ext'
- it sometimes leads to bad results. When typing 'secret' TB autocompletes to 
'redact...@domain.ext' for some unknown reason (or because it got the same 
doamine name )

Please revert to previous satisfying behaviour or fix new behaviour !!!

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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 Markm...@.com. The other is
  Jamesjames.m...@.com. Both are in my address book with Mark
  entered as the nickname of m...@.com  and James as nickname for
  james.m...@.com.

  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 m...@.com

  Reason it is needed:
  I am trying to avoid sending emails meant for m...@.com 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)

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[Desktop-packages] [Bug 956618]

[JLuc]

Addition : some emails need to be accessed regularly, but have the same
part before the @. Hence, i use the nickname or some free field of the
email card in the adress book to as to state a unique nickname or
keyword that differenciate each of these adress. Its good that all these
fields are searched.

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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 Markm...@.com. The other is
  Jamesjames.m...@.com. Both are in my address book with Mark
  entered as the nickname of m...@.com  and James as nickname for
  james.m...@.com.

  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 m...@.com

  Reason it is needed:
  I am trying to avoid sending emails meant for m...@.com 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)

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[Bugzilla2007]

Aceman, Suyash, can you look into this? (See starting points at the
bottom of this comment)

STR are found in comment 45, please ignore comment 0 which has a wider
scope not applicable for what we want here.

This bug should be fixed *as a matter of urgency* and landed into TB
ESR31, because it renders the nickname feature practically useless
without insider knowledge and is now more exposed after the landing of
autocomplete twin bugs, bug 529584 and bug 558931.

Although some of the adverse user comments on those bugs are just
inconsiderate noise and nonsense (even suggesting we should not search
email addresses for recipient autocompletion!), for a certain subset of
users there's a trend of complaining that it's now harder to find their
favourite addresses with very short searchwords of just one or two
characters, for which case they'll see more results not returned before,
due to new contains algorithm (*foo*). It all depends on search patterns
and AB data structure, but I suspect such users are typically
older/longterm private users with small address books. In such user's
perception (as evidenced on comments), the old beginsWith algorithm,
combined with popularityIndex plain counter, was effectively acting as a
shortcut system to their favourite recipients, where typing Ang
*appeared* to reliably return their favorite contact, Angus Miller. Of
course that has never been true and would fail also in TB 24 even for
simple scenarios where user might also have frequent conversation with
Angus Johnson, Angelina, and Angelo. But in the combination of
narrow beginsWith algorithm and popularity Index, that problem was often
hidden for small ABs in private use.

So what such users really want is a stable 1:1 shortcut relationship
between their short searchwords (Ang) and their favourite contact
associated with that (Angus Miller). That's where we fail miserably
because of this bug: Traditional nicknames like Tom will largely fail
because the contact where Nickname==Tom will not be reliably toplisted
in autocomplete results, so you end up with Tony Tomson toplisted
instead if he has a higher popularityIndex.

The other bad problem now more exposed and hence urgently in need of
fixing in this context (but much harder than this here), is Bug 382415
(replace popularityIndex with frecency algorithm for autocomplete based
on user inputs and picked results), for which a temporary simpler
improvement might be something along Bug 1058583 (aging algorithm for
popularityIndex).

Aceman, Suyash, this bug here should be relatively easy to fix; starting
points in code and outline of potential fix found in comment 50 and
comment 51.

(In reply to Thomas D. from comment #54)
 Aceman, I think this shouldn't be too hard and will be very similar and in
 same code area as your sophisticated patch in Bug 984875, attachment 8428850
 [©] [details] [diff] [review]. My comment 50 and comment 51 also provide a
 starting point how this could be done. Perhaps the combination of your
 insight and my starting points might enable you to come up with a draft
 patch here?

(In reply to Thomas D. from comment #55)
 Oh, and somewhat contrary to comment 0, my understanding of this bug is that
 most importantly, we want to toplist autocomplete results where
 nickname==searchstring (full string match). Haven't thought about partial
 nickname matches much, but strongly suspect we shouldn't undermine
 popularity more than necessary, so just toplisting full string matches would
 suffice for this bug (ignore other sorting suggestions found in comment 0).

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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 Markm...@.com. The other is
  Jamesjames.m...@.com. Both are in my address book with Mark
  entered as the nickname of m...@.com  and James as nickname for
  james.m...@.com.

  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 m...@.com

  Reason it is needed:
  I am trying to avoid sending emails meant for m...@.com 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: 

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 956618]

[Bugzilla2007]

*** Bug 1059630 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

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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 Markm...@.com. The other is
  Jamesjames.m...@.com. Both are in my address book with Mark
  entered as the nickname of m...@.com  and James as nickname for
  james.m...@.com.

  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 m...@.com

  Reason it is needed:
  I am trying to avoid sending emails meant for m...@.com 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
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[Bugzilla2007]

(In reply to Thomas D. from comment #45)
 (In reply to Deven Corzine from comment #43)
  This worked in Thunderbird 2, which means it's a regression bug, not an
 
 Fwiw, notwithstanding the annoyingness of this bug, it is NOT a regression.
 I just tested this on TB version 2.0.0.24 (20100228), and nicks do NOT get
 absolute precedence in composition's recipient autocomplete (but it's easy
 to get fooled into thinking they do).
 
 I tested with this scenario (basically):
 
 Card1:
 firstname: n1n
 email: a...@asdf.com
 nick: n2n
 
 Card2:
 firstname: foo
 email: a...@asdf.com
 nick: n1n
 

For reproducing this bug, create two new cards to ensure that both cards
have same value for popularityIndex, otherwise the correct card might
appear toplisted but for the wrong reasons.

 
 STR
 1 compose new msg
 2 in TO recipient field, type n1n
 
 Actual Result:
 - card 1 is at top of autocomplete list
 - ...
 
 Expected Result:
 - card 2 having fullstring match of nick should be at top of autocomplete
 list

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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 Markm...@.com. The other is
  Jamesjames.m...@.com. Both are in my address book with Mark
  entered as the nickname of m...@.com  and James as nickname for
  james.m...@.com.

  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 m...@.com

  Reason it is needed:
  I am trying to avoid sending emails meant for m...@.com 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)

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[Bugzilla2007]

Sorry, the flags should have another comment, so I'll toggle them back
and forth once more to get that right.

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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 Markm...@.com. The other is
  Jamesjames.m...@.com. Both are in my address book with Mark
  entered as the nickname of m...@.com  and James as nickname for
  james.m...@.com.

  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 m...@.com

  Reason it is needed:
  I am trying to avoid sending emails meant for m...@.com 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)

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[Bugzilla2007]

Aceman, I think this shouldn't be too hard and will be very similar and
in same code area as your sophisticated patch in Bug 984875, attachment
8428850. My comment 50 and comment 51 also provide a starting point how
this could be done. Perhaps the combination of your insight and my
starting points might enable you to come up with a draft patch here?

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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 Markm...@.com. The other is
  Jamesjames.m...@.com. Both are in my address book with Mark
  entered as the nickname of m...@.com  and James as nickname for
  james.m...@.com.

  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 m...@.com

  Reason it is needed:
  I am trying to avoid sending emails meant for m...@.com 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)

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Oh, and somewhat contrary to comment 0, my understanding of this bug is
that most importantly, we want to toplist autocomplete results where
nickname==searchstring (full string match). Haven't thought about
partial nickname matches much, but strongly suspect we shouldn't
undermine popularity more than necessary, so just toplisting full string
matches would suffice for this bug (ignore other sorting suggestions
found in comment 0).

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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 Markm...@.com. The other is
  Jamesjames.m...@.com. Both are in my address book with Mark
  entered as the nickname of m...@.com  and James as nickname for
  james.m...@.com.

  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 m...@.com

  Reason it is needed:
  I am trying to avoid sending emails meant for m...@.com 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)

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[Gwelsh]

I just found reference to this bug a few weeks after filing Bug 972690.
I really hadn't thought of nicknames being more important than last
names or first names, but as of SM 2.24 there seems to not be any
relevance at all between what is entered and what shows up.  The results
should at least START with the letters I am typing.  That's how it
worked before ( up through SM 2.23).

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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 Markm...@.com. The other is
  Jamesjames.m...@.com. Both are in my address book with Mark
  entered as the nickname of m...@.com  and James as nickname for
  james.m...@.com.

  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 m...@.com

  Reason it is needed:
  I am trying to avoid sending emails meant for m...@.com 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)

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(In reply to Thomas D. from comment #44)

 users correctly expect from the intrinsic purpose of nickname design,
 that nicks should have absolute priority in searches, which includes
 priority over frecency. Frecency is a way of automatically establishing
 *dynamic* nicks, but certainly *static* nicks that have been purposefully and
 explicitly defined by user must take precedence over that.

Adding frecency, the big brother of this bug (but not required to fix this), 
is
Bug 382415 - Popularity index of autocomplete doesn't honor timeline (use 
frecency for email contacts)

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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 Markm...@.com. The other is
  Jamesjames.m...@.com. Both are in my address book with Mark
  entered as the nickname of m...@.com  and James as nickname for
  james.m...@.com.

  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 m...@.com

  Reason it is needed:
  I am trying to avoid sending emails meant for m...@.com 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)

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[Bugzilla2007]

This looks like one of the main places where we call addToResult(...) function 
(see comment 49).
If that's correct, one way of fixing this bug might be this:

Around here...

http://mxr.mozilla.org/comm-central/source/mailnews/addrbook/src/nsAbAutoCompleteSearch.js#146
146  let email = card.primaryEmail;
147   if (email)
148 this._addToResult(commentColumn, directory, card, email, true, 
result);

...perhaps we could get the nick field as we now get the email field, and then 
add matches of the search fullstring (is that available here?) against nick to 
a separate result array, say resultTop.
Then merge resultTop Array with result array.

We also need to sort multiple nick matches on something (because
unfortunately it's possible to have multiple cards with same nick).

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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 Markm...@.com. The other is
  Jamesjames.m...@.com. Both are in my address book with Mark
  entered as the nickname of m...@.com  and James as nickname for
  james.m...@.com.

  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 m...@.com

  Reason it is needed:
  I am trying to avoid sending emails meant for m...@.com 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)

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Given that all other nicks out there follow the inherent UX-concept of
an ALIAS name or shortcut (where the nick is synomymous with its
parent), and given that the FF equivalent of nicks aka keywords follow
this inherent design principle correctly (nicks getting absolute
priority in awesome location bar, even before frecency), this is also an
issue of at least external ux-concistency.

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Title:
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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 Markm...@.com. The other is
  Jamesjames.m...@.com. Both are in my address book with Mark
  entered as the nickname of m...@.com  and James as nickname for
  james.m...@.com.

  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 m...@.com

  Reason it is needed:
  I am trying to avoid sending emails meant for m...@.com 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)

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[Bugzilla2007]

(In reply to Deven Corzine from comment #43)
 How does such an obvious bug get filed and debated for year (2013), after
 year (2012), after year (2011), after year (2010), after year (2009), after
 year (2008), after year (2007), after year (2006)... but never actually
 fixed?

Deven, thanks for your feedback. I appreciate the frustration, as I've
often felt it myself (being an active volunteer TB QA/UX contributor
since 2007). However, we need to face the fact that TB has a track
record of unresolved bugs for a variety of reasons. Where this bug is
just one out of many, and the choice of important bugs to start from
is pretty vast.

TB is now maintained almost exclusively by volunteers, so getting this
bug fixed requires a volunteer who is a) able, b) willing, and c) has
the time to actually fix this, and d) an agreement about the exact goal
of this bug, the desired UX how it should be fixed. a) and c) are the
hard parts, whereas I'd consider d) a non-issue in this case (although
looking at the entirety of comment 0, to which comment 12 responds, I
suspect misunderstandings about d) also contributed to the long latency
of this bug).

 This worked in Thunderbird 2, which means it's a regression bug, not an
 enhancement.

Deven (and others before), thanks for pointing that out. Understanding
the nature of a bug and documenting that as precisely as possible in the
bug report is crucial.

Indeed, this looks like a bug because it violates the very purpose of
the nickname design, which is a 1 on 1 relationship between the (ideally
unique) nick and the card, to allow user to retrieve and distinguish
that card efficiently and consistently from all other cards. (As a
caveat, note that TB is not enforcing uniqueness of nicks!). As has
often been said in this bug, users correctly expect from the intrinsic
purpose of nickname design, that nicks should have absolute priority in
searches, which includes priority over frecency. Frecency is a way of
automatically establishing dynamic nicks, but certainly nicks that have
been purposefully and explicitly defined by user must take precedence
over that (why should I add wil as a nick to my uncle's card if I
don't want wil to find that very card?). Users who want the frecency
algorithm to take highest precedence probably wouldn't (and shouldn't)
define explicit nicks.

Due to violation of these imo correct, established, and widely-evidenced
user expectations, this is a bug in terms of UX error prevention where
users can easily inadvertently send the msg to the wrong recipient(s),
which is a major violation of their privacy. As such, this bug also
undermines UX trust in TB as an application, as repeatedly stated here
in line of comment 0 and comment 43:

 You may not think this is important, but anything that causes mail to get 
 sent to
 the wrong user inadvertantly is just about he worst possible problem a mailer 
 can have.

 There has been ample evidence that this seemingly-minor issue
 is a major source of frustration to many users, even to the point of
 abandoning Thunderbird entirely.  It may be a little thing, but that doesn't
 mean it doesn't matter.
 
 Instead of debating the best algorithm for years, why not at least add a
 special-case check for an exact match of a unique nickname, before going
 into the current algorithm?  That would satisfy the critical use case,
 making most of the frustrated users happy.  A special-case should be trivial
 to add, for anyone who knows the code, so why hasn't that much been done
 after nearly 8 years of this ticket being marked as NEW?

See my remarks further up in this comment. Getting bugs fixed in TB is
often less trivial than it looks, for a variety of reasons...

FTR: I agree that the obvious solution to this bug (as required by the
intrinsic principles of nicks design concept) is to list fullstring
matches on nicks at the very top of the recipient autocomplete dropdown,
so that they take highest precedence (even before frecency if we
implement that). Btw FF works the same way for keywords: Keywords (not
tags, nor frecency) take absolute highest priority over any other
matches. Think of keywords and nicks as an ALIAS for the real thing.

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Title:
  Nickname not over-riding names in email address

Status in Mozilla Thunderbird Mail and News:
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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 Markm...@.com. The other is
  Jamesjames.m...@.com. Both are in my address book with Mark
  entered as the nickname of m...@.com  and James as nickname for
  james.m...@.com.

  If I type james in the To: field I get 

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 956618]

[Bugzilla2007]

:aceman just fixed bug 529584 which is also about the result set in
recipient autocomplete, so the patch there (attachment 803332) might be
good starting point to identify the right spot in the code.

And to everyone following this bug, if you have an interest in getting
this fixed, even if you're not a code, it would have been a good idea to
ensure that it isn't assigned to somebody who stopped working on this
in 2008, because that will tell any other potential coder that there's
nothing to do here because it's already taken by someone... :|

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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 Markm...@.com. The other is
  Jamesjames.m...@.com. Both are in my address book with Mark
  entered as the nickname of m...@.com  and James as nickname for
  james.m...@.com.

  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 m...@.com

  Reason it is needed:
  I am trying to avoid sending emails meant for m...@.com 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
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[Bugzilla2007]

(In reply to Thomas D. from comment #45)
 (In reply to Deven Corzine from comment #43)
  This worked in Thunderbird 2, which means it's a regression bug, not an
 
 Fwiw, notwithstanding the annoyingness of this bug, it is NOT a regression.
 I just tested this on TB version 2.0.0.24 (20100228), and nicks do NOT get
 absolute precedence in composition's recipient autocomplete (but it's easy
 to get fooled into thinking they do).
 
 I tested with this scenario (basically):
 
 Card1:
 firstname: n1n
 email: a...@asdf.com
 nick: n2n
 
 Card2:
 firstname: foo
 email: a...@asdf.com
 nick: n1n

Fwiw, I actually had these cards in different AB's (card 1 in Personal
AB, card 2 in Collected Addresses). It shouldn't matter anyway.

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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 Markm...@.com. The other is
  Jamesjames.m...@.com. Both are in my address book with Mark
  entered as the nickname of m...@.com  and James as nickname for
  james.m...@.com.

  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 m...@.com

  Reason it is needed:
  I am trying to avoid sending emails meant for m...@.com 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)

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[Bugzilla2007]

For non-LDAP cases, I understand that it's this addToResult(...)
function which finally sorts the autocomplete results list:

http://mxr.mozilla.org/comm-
central/source/mailnews/addrbook/src/nsAbAutoCompleteSearch.js#276

Seems to first sort on popularity here (after having removed duplicates)...
http://mxr.mozilla.org/comm-central/source/mailnews/addrbook/src/nsAbAutoCompleteSearch.js#309

...and then on full addresses here (probably secondary sort):
http://mxr.mozilla.org/comm-central/source/mailnews/addrbook/src/nsAbAutoCompleteSearch.js#318

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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 Markm...@.com. The other is
  Jamesjames.m...@.com. Both are in my address book with Mark
  entered as the nickname of m...@.com  and James as nickname for
  james.m...@.com.

  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 m...@.com

  Reason it is needed:
  I am trying to avoid sending emails meant for m...@.com 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
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[Bugzilla2007]

(In reply to Deven Corzine from comment #43)
 This worked in Thunderbird 2, which means it's a regression bug, not an

Fwiw, notwithstanding the annoyingness of this bug, it is NOT a regression.
I just tested this on TB version 2.0.0.24 (20100228), and nicks do NOT get 
absolute precedence in composition's recipient autocomplete (but it's easy to 
get fooled into thinking they do).

I tested with this scenario (basically):

Card1:
firstname: n1n
email: a...@asdf.com
nick: n2n

Card2:
firstname: foo
email: a...@asdf.com
nick: n1n

STR
1 compose new msg
2 in TO recipient field, type n1n

Actual Result:
- card 1 is at top of autocomplete list
- ...

Expected Result:
- card 2 having fullstring match of nick should be at top of autocomplete list

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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 Markm...@.com. The other is
  Jamesjames.m...@.com. Both are in my address book with Mark
  entered as the nickname of m...@.com  and James as nickname for
  james.m...@.com.

  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 m...@.com

  Reason it is needed:
  I am trying to avoid sending emails meant for m...@.com 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)

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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 Markm...@.com. The other is
  Jamesjames.m...@.com. Both are in my address book with Mark
  entered as the nickname of m...@.com  and James as nickname for
  james.m...@.com.

  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 m...@.com

  Reason it is needed:
  I am trying to avoid sending emails meant for m...@.com 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)

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[Desktop-packages] [Bug 956618]

[Deven T. Corzine]

How does such an obvious bug get filed and debated for year (2013),
after year (2012), after year (2011), after year (2010), after year
(2009), after year (2008), after year (2007), after year (2006)... but
never actually fixed?

This worked in Thunderbird 2, which means it's a regression bug, not an
enhancement.  There has been ample evidence that this seemingly-minor
issue is a major source of frustration to many users, even to the point
of abandoning Thunderbird entirely.  It may be a little thing, but that
doesn't mean it doesn't matter.

Instead of debating the best algorithm for years, why not at least add a
special-case check for an exact match of a unique nickname, before going
into the current algorithm?  That would satisfy the critical use case,
making most of the frustrated users happy.  A special-case should be
trivial to add, for anyone who knows the code, so why hasn't that much
been done after nearly 8 years of this ticket being marked as NEW?

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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 Markm...@.com. The other is
  Jamesjames.m...@.com. Both are in my address book with Mark
  entered as the nickname of m...@.com  and James as nickname for
  james.m...@.com.

  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 m...@.com

  Reason it is needed:
  I am trying to avoid sending emails meant for m...@.com 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)

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[Bugzilla2007]

(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.

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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 Markm...@.com. The other is
  Jamesjames.m...@.com. Both are in my address book with Mark
  entered as the nickname of m...@.com  and James as nickname for
  james.m...@.com.

  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 m...@.com

  Reason it is needed:
  I am trying to avoid sending emails meant for m...@.com 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)

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[Bugzilla2007]

(In reply to Thomas D. from comment #38)
 So resolving multiple comma-separated nicks is probably beyond the scope of 
 this
 bug. I'd recommend filing a separate bug for resolving a comma-separated list 
 of
 nicknames.

OT: also about resolving multiple comma-separated nicks on one line:
https://getsatisfaction.com/mozilla_messaging/topics/five_reasons_i_downgraded_to_v2
https://getsatisfaction.com/mozilla_messaging/topics/address_entry_has_gotten_worse_with_new_updates
and probably more

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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 Markm...@.com. The other is
  Jamesjames.m...@.com. Both are in my address book with Mark
  entered as the nickname of m...@.com  and James as nickname for
  james.m...@.com.

  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 m...@.com

  Reason it is needed:
  I am trying to avoid sending emails meant for m...@.com 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)

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[Bugzilla2007]

(In reply to Thomas D. from comment #38)
 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.

OT: Resolving other comma-separated things on recipients line, see also
Bug 528503, bug 392932.

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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 Markm...@.com. The other is
  Jamesjames.m...@.com. Both are in my address book with Mark
  entered as the nickname of m...@.com  and James as nickname for
  james.m...@.com.

  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 m...@.com

  Reason it is needed:
  I am trying to avoid sending emails meant for m...@.com 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)

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[Desktop-packages] [Bug 956618]

[Bugzilla2007]

This bug (and related bugs on nicknames) are supported by plenty of complaints 
at getsatisfaction:
265 topics found for nickname

https://getsatisfaction.com/mozilla_messaging/searches?query=nicknamex=1y=3style=topics

I stopped tagging gs reports after the first 2 or 3 result pages.

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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 Markm...@.com. The other is
  Jamesjames.m...@.com. Both are in my address book with Mark
  entered as the nickname of m...@.com  and James as nickname for
  james.m...@.com.

  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 m...@.com

  Reason it is needed:
  I am trying to avoid sending emails meant for m...@.com 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)

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[Desktop-packages] [Bug 956618]

[Bugzilla2007]

See also:

Bug 295428 - Names and nicknames should still work in address book
without autocomplete

Bug 118624 - AB quick search and contacts side bar does not search/match
Nickname field, but should (ux-inconsistent with autocomplete)

Bug 400713 - Allow showing any fields from address book as columns in
compose message contacts pane (sidebar) [column picker, customize,
sorting by organization, nickname etc.]

Bug 247335 - Add separate First Name, Last Name and Display Name
fields to address book column picker for optional display in AB list
pane

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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 Markm...@.com. The other is
  Jamesjames.m...@.com. Both are in my address book with Mark
  entered as the nickname of m...@.com  and James as nickname for
  james.m...@.com.

  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 m...@.com

  Reason it is needed:
  I am trying to avoid sending emails meant for m...@.com 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)

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[Desktop-packages] [Bug 956618]

[Manuel López-Ibáñez]

(In reply to Tom Kreutz from comment #36)
 Isn't there any way to get this bug fixed?  It's so obviously idiotic, and
 leads to such embarrassing and/or inconvenient results.
 
 Help

It would be nice if Mozilla Messaging provided a convenient way to
crowd-fund specific features. Something simpler than kick-starter and
perhaps connected to bugzilla.

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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 Markm...@.com. The other is
  Jamesjames.m...@.com. Both are in my address book with Mark
  entered as the nickname of m...@.com  and James as nickname for
  james.m...@.com.

  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 m...@.com

  Reason it is needed:
  I am trying to avoid sending emails meant for m...@.com 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)

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[Desktop-packages] [Bug 956618]

[Kreutz-9]

Isn't there any way to get this bug fixed?  It's so obviously idiotic,
and leads to such embarrassing and/or inconvenient results.

Help

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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 Markm...@.com. The other is
  Jamesjames.m...@.com. Both are in my address book with Mark
  entered as the nickname of m...@.com  and James as nickname for
  james.m...@.com.

  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 m...@.com

  Reason it is needed:
  I am trying to avoid sending emails meant for m...@.com 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)

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[Desktop-packages] [Bug 956618]

[Erich-nospam+bugzilla]

Just sent an email to the wrong person due to this bug.  Here's the
situation:

I have the following two people in my Personal Address Book:
First: Zhichao
Last: Zhang
Display: Jack Zhang
Nickname: Jack
Email: z...@company1.com

First: Jack
Last: Lastname2
Display: Lastname2, Jack
Nickname: (blank)
Email: jack.lastna...@company2.com

My email address is er...@company1.com (same company as first Jack)

I occasionally send email to Jack from Company 2, but (obviously since
I've added a nickname for Jack number 1) when I type Jack in the To:
field, I want email to go to the Jack in my own company.  As you can
see, he has taken an American name (Jack) to go by instead of his real
name (Zhichao).

Well, when I type Jack in the To: field, Thunderbird only gives me one
option, Jack from Company 2!  If I want to send email to Jack #1 I have
to type zh and select his name from the multiple choices, or type
zzc and his email is the only choice.  It seems Thunderbird completely
ignores the nickname, as it doesn't even offer Jack Zhang.

Ok, further testing reveals if I type slowly (Jac, then wait) both
Jacks are provided as options.  If I then further type the k, both
Jacks remain as options for me to choose from.

I would like AT A MINIMUM for both Jacks to be options if I type Jack
quickly, and of course I agree with everyone above that Jack Zhang
should be the first option when typing Jack.

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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 Markm...@.com. The other is
  Jamesjames.m...@.com. Both are in my address book with Mark
  entered as the nickname of m...@.com  and James as nickname for
  james.m...@.com.

  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 m...@.com

  Reason it is needed:
  I am trying to avoid sending emails meant for m...@.com 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)

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[Desktop-packages] [Bug 956618]

[Eg-pat-tx]

6 years is far too long to either:
(a) Remove the nickname from the email options
(b) Make it work (when I type Ann followed by a carriage return, it 
automatically fills in the address for my nickname Ann - and no other!

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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 Markm...@.com. The other is
  Jamesjames.m...@.com. Both are in my address book with Mark
  entered as the nickname of m...@.com  and James as nickname for
  james.m...@.com.

  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 m...@.com

  Reason it is needed:
  I am trying to avoid sending emails meant for m...@.com 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)

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[Desktop-packages] [Bug 956618] Re: Nickname not over-riding names in email address

[Logan Rosen]

** Bug watch added: Mozilla Bugzilla #325458
   https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=325458

** Also affects: thunderbird via
   https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=325458
   Importance: Unknown
   Status: Unknown

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Title:
  Nickname not over-riding names in email address

Status in Mozilla Thunderbird Mail and News:
  Unknown
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 Markm...@.com. The other is
  Jamesjames.m...@.com. Both are in my address book with Mark
  entered as the nickname of m...@.com  and James as nickname for
  james.m...@.com.

  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 m...@.com

  Reason it is needed:
  I am trying to avoid sending emails meant for m...@.com 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)

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On 2006-02-01T15:46:50+00:00 Brian-atkins wrote:

User-Agent:   Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8) 
Gecko/2005 Firefox/1.5
Build Identifier: Thunderbird 1.5

I have an address book entry with the nickname wil.  When I type wil
in the To line in the composition window, the result is an entry who's
last name is Wilbur and which has no nickname at all.

The algorithm for finding addresses in the phone book should have the
highest precedence on a full string match of nickname (after all, why
did the user take the time to enter a nick name after all).  Imho, the
precedence should be:

1) Full string match on nickname
2) Full string match on last name
3) Full string match on first name
4) Initial string match on nickname
5) Initial string match on last name
6) Initial string match on first name

You may not think this is important, but anything that causes mail to
get sent to the wrong user inadvertantly is just about he worst possible
problem a mailer can have.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create an entry with wil as the nickname
2. Create an entry with Wilber as the last name
3. Enter wil in the To: field of the composition window

Actual Results:  
The entry with the last name Wilbur is autocompleted

Expected Results:  
The entry with the nickname wil should have been autocompleted

I entered this defect before, and have seen others report it.  However,
I searched Bugzilla and, searching for nickname, did not find it.  I
apologize if this is duplicate, but after about 30min searching, I
couldn't find the old bug.

Reply at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/thunderbird/+bug/956618/comments/0


On 2006-02-01T17:28:54+00:00 Brian-atkins wrote:

I should have added a possibly important point.  I have multiple address
books, which appear, and I assume are searched in alphabetical order.
The entry for Wilber appears in an address book at the top, which
begins with A.  The entry with wil as the nickname appears in an
address book further down, which begins with I.

Perhaps the solution is to allow the user to set the order by which the
address books are searched?

Reply at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/thunderbird/+bug/956618/comments/1


On 2006-02-01T20:10:31+00:00 Mcow wrote:

See bug 323364, which references several other bugs about list ordering.

I'm not convinced this is a major bug; it sounds like an enhancement request 
to me.

Reply at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/thunderbird/+bug/956618/comments/2


On 2006-02-14T01:04:30+00:00 Eg-pat-tx wrote:

(In reply to comment #0)
 User-Agent:   Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8)
 Gecko/2005 Firefox/1.5
 Build Identifier: Thunderbird 1.5

This anomoly appeared after I updated to v1.5 Before typing Jim
followed by the ENTER key produced the ONE email with nickname Jim.
Now my mail is getting  addressed to an email address beginning with
Jim...  Why on earth would anyone updating the app change this
behavior. I can't use nicknames at all now because they DONT WORK!

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On 2006-08-31T21:17:18+00:00 Stachnis wrote:

 This anomoly appeared after I updated to v1.5 Before typing Jim followed by
 the ENTER key produced the ONE email with nickname Jim. Now my mail is
 getting  addressed to an email address beginning with Jim...  Why on earth
 would anyone updating the app change this behavior. I can't use nicknames at
 all now because they DONT WORK!

I totally agree. I send several email sto the wrong person in the last days.
I changed back to Mozilla Suite, which does not has not this in my opinion  
really serious bug.

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On 2006-09-25T10:31:34+00:00 Alexandre-ferrieux wrote:

Total agreement, this is a serious *regression* from ol'good Mozilla 1.7.
And also from any decent mail client by the way: only an idiot would prefer to 
have all substring matches from LDAP or collected address book take precedence 
over the hand-crafted, ultra-short nicknames.

So currently for me Thunderbird is unusable, because of theis very
nickname issue.

Since this bug was reported 8 months ago, and judged just a feature
request 

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 956618] [NEW] Nickname not over-riding names in email address

[Robin]

Public bug reported:

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 Markm...@.com. The other is
Jamesjames.m...@.com. Both are in my address book with Mark
entered as the nickname of m...@.com  and James as nickname for
james.m...@.com.

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 m...@.com

Reason it is needed:
I am trying to avoid sending emails meant for m...@.com 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)

** Affects: thunderbird (Ubuntu)
 Importance: Undecided
 Status: New


** Tags: apport-bug i386 oneiric running-unity

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Title:
  Nickname not over-riding names in email address

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 Markm...@.com. The other is
  Jamesjames.m...@.com. Both are in my address book with Mark
  entered as the nickname of m...@.com  and James as nickname for
  james.m...@.com.

  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 m...@.com

  Reason it is needed:
  I am trying to avoid sending emails meant for m...@.com 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)

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[Desktop-packages] [Bug 956618] Re: Nickname not over-riding names in email address

[Robin]

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Title:
  Nickname not over-riding names in email address

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 Markm...@.com. The other is
  Jamesjames.m...@.com. Both are in my address book with Mark
  entered as the nickname of m...@.com  and James as nickname for
  james.m...@.com.

  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 m...@.com

  Reason it is needed:
  I am trying to avoid sending emails meant for m...@.com 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)

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