1059630 - not handling input to TO box properly

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 325458

(Thunderbird :: Address Book, defect)

Description

[j.mccranie]

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Steps to reproduce:

I entered a display name in the TO field.


Actual results:

It defaults to part of a name in my address book rather than the proper person. 


Expected results:

It should try to match the display name first.

I have someone that I send email to frequently set up with a display name of "Anne".  If I type "anne" into the TO field, it brings up a list of three or four, but the default one is someone I rarely use, who has "joanne" in her address.  How can I make it default to the one I want?  (I read a couple of help pages, but didn't find anything that fixed it.)

Comment 1

[Thomas D. (:thomas8)]

Hi j.mccranie,

yeah, we're lacking documentation... and things have changed a little wrt autocompletion

Looks like what you want is a stable 1:1 relationship between search word "Anne" and that particular contact you have in mind. The best thing to do is to use the "Nickname" feature of TB:

Edit the "Nickname" (not display name) property of Anne's contact card, and set it to something which is truly unique and NOT contained as a substring of any other searched data fields of any other card of any address book. Say her name is "Anne Johnson", make her nick something unique like "ajo1", "aj#", ":aj", or "aaa" (unfortunately, due to bug 325458, nickname "Anne" will NOT work for your scenario although it should).