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? -- 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<m...@yyyy.com>. The other is James<james.m...@xxxx.com>. Both are in my address book with Mark entered as the nickname of m...@yyyy.com and James as nickname for james.m...@xxxx.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...@yyyy.com Reason it is needed: I am trying to avoid sending emails meant for m...@yyyy.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) 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 : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
