<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> -- 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
