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).
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to thunderbird in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/956618 Title: Nickname not over-riding names in email address Status in Mozilla Thunderbird Mail and News: Confirmed Status in “thunderbird” package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: From what I have read in the support forum the nickname should take priority in the search for an email address in the to: field. It does not appear to work any more. Example: One friend's address is Mark<[email protected]>. The other is James<[email protected]>. Both are in my address book with Mark entered as the nickname of [email protected] and James as nickname for [email protected]. If I type james in the To: field I get james.mark as a first entry in the list of available addresses. If I type mark I get the same address again, when I would prefer the first optional address to be [email protected] Reason it is needed: I am trying to avoid sending emails meant for [email protected] to James.mark because I do not notice in time that I have defaulted to the first entry in the list of available addresses. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10 Package: thunderbird 10.0.2+build1-0ubuntu0.11.10.1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-16.29-generic-pae 3.0.20 Uname: Linux 3.0.0-16-generic-pae i686 ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu4 Architecture: i386 BuildID: 20120216123548 Date: Fri Mar 16 00:31:06 2012 InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Release i386 (20111012) SourcePackage: thunderbird UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/thunderbird/+bug/956618/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
